Author: William Christie MacLeodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Origin of the State Reconsidered in the Light of the Data of Aboriginal North America ...
Author: William Christie MacLeodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
American Anthropologist
Author: the american indian frontier
Author: william christie macleodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
American Anthropologist
Author: A Century of Controversy
Author: Elman R ServicePublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483269604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A Century of Controversy: Ethnological Issues from 1860 to 1960 is an assessment of the history of ethnology in terms of its intellectual progress, with emphasis on the controversial issues that were broached between 1860 and 1960. Two related philosophical or theoretical poses that characterized the prominent ethnological thinkers of this period, and earlier, are related to this phenomenon. One was the prevalent positivism, the other the belief in human progress as a form of social, cultural, and mental evolution. Comprised of 19 chapters, this volume begins by looking at several eminent scholars dealing more closely with the subject of ethnology, including Henry Maine and John F. McLennan in Great Britain; Johann J. Bachofen in Switzerland; and Fustel de Coulanges in France. In particular, the chapter examines the disagreement among Maine, Bachofen, McLennan, and Fustel de Coulanges as to the nature of the earliest society and its form of marriage; the nature of the evolutionary transformations of society (especially from primitive society to civilization); and the actual meaning and function of kinship terminology. The next two chapters describe the positive, useful discoveries as well as the mistakes and weaknesses of Lewis H. Morgan's work, with particular reference to his classificatory kinship nomenclature. Subsequent sections focus on controversies surrounding kinship terminology; social structure; the origins of government; the economic life of primitive peoples; and society and culture. This book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology.
Writings on American History
Author: The American Political Science Review
Author: This Country was Ours
Author: Virgil J. VogelPublisher: New York : Harper & Row
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Numerous extracts from firsthand accounts and documents provide both Indian and white perspectives on the life styles, white relations, and tragic plight of the North American natives since the early European invasions.
Handbook of Administrative History
Author: Jos RaadscheldersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135151640X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Public administration is commonly assumed to be a young discipline, rooted in law and political science, with little history of its own. Likewise, teaching and scholarship in this field is often career oriented and geared either toward the search for immediately usable knowledge or guidelines and prescriptions for the future. Although most administrative scientists would acknowledge that their field has a history, their time horizon is limited to the recent past. Raadschelders demonstrates that public administration has in fact a long-standing tradition, both in practice and in writing; administration has been an issue ever since human beings recognized the need to organize themselves in order to organize the environment in which they lived. This history, in turn, underlines the need for administrators to be aware of the importance and contemporary impact of past decisions and old traditions. In seeking to go beyond the usual problem-solving and future-oriented studies of public administration, this volume adds greatly to the cognitive richness of this field of research. Indeed, the search for theoretical generalizations will profit from an approach that unravels long-term trends in the development of administration and government."Raadschelders approaches public administration history from a dual perspective, as trained historian and professor of public administration.... The volume is appropriately called a aehandbook' in view of its methodical listing of the literature on administrative history, together with summaries of numerous authors' principal theories. The second chapter is an essay on sources in the field, including an extended bibliography.... These parts of the book alone make it useful to scholars in the field.... Raadschelders is helpful in other ways as well. The third and fourth chapters offer a highly sophisticated discussion of methodological problems encountered in writing administrative history, including the issue of perceiving 'stage
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Author: Charles Franklin DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Vols. 1-22 include the section "Recent publications upon economics".