Extinction and survival in human populations / edited by Charles D. Laughlin, Jr., and Ivan A. Brady.

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Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1978.Description: xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0231044186
9780231044189
0231044194
9780231044196

Report number: 77017596Subject(s): DDC classification:

301.24

LOC classification:

GN358 .E95

Other classification:

73.50
MS 4200
MS 9400

Online resources:

French equivalent / Equivalent fran cais

Contents:

Introduction : Diaphasis and change in human populations / Charles D. Laughlin, Jr. and Ivan A. Brady -- Rethinking the Ik : a functional non-social system / Colin M. Turnbull -- Adaptation and exchange in So : a diachronic study of deprivation / Charles D. Laughlin, Jr. -- Gross stress in small islands : a study in macropsychiatry / John Cawte -- Resource fluctuations and competitive transformations in West Indian slave societies / Robert Dirks -- Survival and reciprocity : the case of urban marginality in Mexico / Larissa Lomnitz -- Cultural and biological adaptations to deprivation : the Northern Ojibwa case / Charles A. Bishop -- Survival or extinction : reflections on the problem of famine in Tsimshian and Kaguru mythology / John J. Cove -- Stability and change : wherewithal for survival on a Coral Island / Ivan A. Brady -- Epilogue : adaptation and anthropological theory / Ivan A Brady and Charles D. Laughlin, Jr.

Summary: Paper by J. Cawte separately annotated.

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