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Contenido: Chapter I.- Introduction -- Chapter II.- Methods. Scope and AIMS -- Techniques af investigation -- The personal situation -- language as a medium of study -- Use of native terms -- Choise of informants -- Essential types of documentation -- The necessary essentials of a useful sample -- Demography -- Chapter III.- Social structure -- Introduction -- Sex and age -- The family -- Kinship -- Lineage and clan -- Social stratification -- Chapter IV.- Social life of the individual -- Daily routine -- Habitual customs and etiquette -- Rules of hospitality -- Training and education -- Weaning -- Speech and locomotion -- Sleep -- Fopod -- Children's activities -- Life cycle from conception to marriage -- Sexual development -- marriage -- Old age, death and disposal of the dead -- Chapter V.- Political organization -- Political systems -- Law and justice -- Introduction -- Property -- Chapter VI.- Economics -- Introduction -- Production -- Distribution -- Exchange -- Consumption -- Chapter VII.- Ritual and Belief -- Introduction -- Magical beliefs and practices -- Witchcraft and sorcery -- Ritual in medicine and therapy -- Ritual and beliefs concerned with phisical phenomena -- Ritual and belief directly concerned wiht social structure -- Chapter VIII.- Knowledge and tradition -- Methods of recording and communication -- Reckoning and measurement -- Cosmology, seasons, weather and calendar -- Geography and topography -- vegetation -- man and the animal kingdom -- Medicine and surgery -- History and myths -- Stories, sayings and songs -- Chapter IX.- language -- Gesture, sign-language and signals -- Spoken language -- Phonology -- Grammar -- Semantics -- PARTE III.- Material Culture -- Introduction -- Status of the craftsman -- personal care and decoration -- Clothing -- habitations -- Fire -- Food -- Stimulants and narcotics -- The food quest -- Tools and mechanisms -- Weapons -- Receptacles for food, drink -- Basketry -- Pottery -- Glass -- Stone, wood and metal work -- Mining and quarrying -- Salt -- Sking and fabrics -- Spinning and weaving -- Dyeing and painting -- Travel and transport By land -- Travel and transport By water -- Arts -- Plastic, glyptic and graphic artsb -- Music -- Written records of music -- Dancing -- Drama -- Games and amusements -- String figures and tricks -- PART IV -- Field antiquities.

The object of this book is twofold. It is intented to be a handy aide-mémoire to the trained anthropologist doing field work, and also to stimulate accurate observation and the recording of information thus obtained by anyone in contact with peoples and cultures hitherto imperfectly described. No peolple or culture has been exhaustively described, so any observer may expect to find some useful work in any area in which be may be. This volume is mainly concerned with the non-literate peoples, but the aims and general principles expounded here are applicable to both kinds of societies. For striking as is the diversity of human cultures it can no longer be maintained that this indicates fundamental differences in human mentality. recent advances in psychology have established the basic identity of human mental structure in all branches of the human race.

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