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Search - Cooperation And Competition Among Primitive Peoples - First Edition.

Cooperation And Competition Among Primitive Peoples - First Edition
Author: Margaret Mead

Text extracted from opening pages of book: COOPERATION AND COMPETITION AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLES EDITED BY MARGARET MEAD Assittant Curator of Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History FIRST EDITION FIFTH IMPRESSION McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK AND LONDON 1937 PREFACE These studies were prepared as a survey of the possible con tribut... more »ion of ethnological material to the planning of research in competitive arid cooperative habits. They were undertaken at the request of the Subcommittee on Competitive Cooperative Habits of the Committee on Personality and Culture of the Social Science Research Council. As this was the first attempt to assemble material upon primitive societies as a background for planning research in this field in our own society, I followed two principles in the selection of the material to be covered. The material was chosen to show the range and possibilities of various kinds of ethnological sources available for such research; it was focused on cultures that appeared to be relevant to the problem in hand. The range of literature includes: 1. Old published sources describing cultures now greatly altered by white contact without supplementary material from recent field work ( Maori). 2. Comparatively recent published material in which no consultation with the field workers was possible ( Ifugao and Amassalik Eskimo). 3. Published and unpublished material which has been col lected over a considerable period of time and at different stages of acculturation. Here it was possible to consult ethnologists who have worked and still are working in these cultures ( Kwa kiutl, Zuni, Iroquois). 4. A culture now greatly altered but about which we have a few old records, a contemporary unpublished study of cultural change, and the manuscript of a trained member of the tribe who was accessible also for questioning, and for which there were some observations made by a psychologist ( Dakota). 5. Studies prepared by field workers for this investigation. 1 1 Certain omissions must be explained. Dobuan society was omitted because Dr. Ruth Benedict's restatement, Patterns of Culture, Chap. V ( Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1934), of Dr. Fortune's material v Vi PREFACE By interpreting in this rather broad way a mandate to examine what ethnological literature had to contribute, it was hoped to demonstrate the relative richness of the various kinds of sources. It will immediately be evident that there are a multitude of questions which the summaries of old literature leave unanswered and on which it is impossible to obtain further information. The time and effort spent in reworking published sources is as great as when field workers organize their own materials in response to a new inquiry. Therefore, if this kind of examina tion of ethnological literature is to be frequently undertaken, the most promising lead would seem to be to regard the field worker as the source rather than published material that has been organized to some other point. Such a method would be much quicker and more economical than sending special research workers into the field, so that, wherever only a small fund was available, maximum results could be obtained. This inquiry was conducted as a seminar. Associated with me were four graduate students in the Department of Anthro pology at Columbia University, Irving Goldman, Jeannette Mirsky, Buell Quain, and Bernard Mishkin, and two post doctorates, May Mandelbaum Edel and Ruth Landes. We worked simultaneously upon our several cultures and met to discuss preliminary results and frame further working hypotheses. In the Introduction is a list of the guiding questions which were prepared at the beginning of the research. Our was already organized to the point of the Dobuan obsessional fantasy competition, and the original materials on Dobu ( Dr. Reo Fortune, Sorcerers of Dobu, E. P. Button & Co., Inc., New York, 1932) are already published in one volume organized to modern anthropological interests. P

ISBN-13: 9781406759945
ISBN-10: 1406759945
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 548
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Publisher: Mead Press
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