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

Contributor(s): 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:
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-316) and index.

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.

Paper by J. Cawte separately annotated.

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