Human thought and social organization [ anthropology on a new plane

Human beings have two outstanding characteristics compared to all other species: the apparently enormous elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism, and the elaboration of our forms of social organization. The view taken in Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New...

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Main Authors: Leaf, Murray J. (Author), Read, Dwight W. , 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books , c2012
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Online Access:IG Publishing

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-447) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Assumptions -- 3. The organizational rubicon of the upper paleolithic -- 4. Fundamentals of human social organization -- 5. Elicitation of kinship terminology structure -- 6. Theory of kinship terminology structures -- 7. Construction of a kinship algebra model -- 8. Kariera kinship and social organization -- 9. Formal algebraic construction of the kariera terminology -- 10. The physical farm budget : a social charter -- 11. Idea systems and communication theory -- 12. Conclusion 
520 |a Human beings have two outstanding characteristics compared to all other species: the apparently enormous elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism, and the elaboration of our forms of social organization. The view taken in Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane is that these are intimately interconnected. To understand this connection, the book compares the structure of the systems of thought that organizations are built upon with the organizational basis of human thinking. An experimental method is used, leading to a new science of the structure of human social organizations in two senses. First, it gives rise to a new kind of ethnology that has the combination of empirical solidity and formal analytical rigor associated with the "paradigmatic" sciences. Second, it makes evident that social organizations have distinctive properties and require distinctive explanations of a sort that cannot be reduced to the explanations drawn from, or grounded in, these other sciences. While focusing primarily on kinship, Human Thought and Social Organization shows how the analysis applies with equal precision to other social areas ranging from farming to political factionalism -- Book jacket 
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