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Twenty four essays cover a broad range of topics in cultural anthropology, and represent the best writings of George Peter Murdock and reveal his theoretical orientation and his many landmark contributions to the field.

An important contribution to medical anthropology, this work defines the principal causes if illness that are reported throughout the world, distinguishing those involving natural causation from the more widely prevalent hypotheses advancing supernatural explanations.

Approximately 15,000 entries dealing with ethnography, history, psychology, human biology and medicine of native peoples of North America. Includes published materials issued before and during 1972.

Application of cultural anthropology, sociology, psychology, and psychoanalysis to the study of some 250 different cultures.

Para George Peter Murdock, antropologia social y sociologia son dos disciplinas encaminadas a una misma finalidad: el estudio de la conducta cultural del hombre. Los 24 ensayos y articulos presentados exhiben, desde distintos angulos, una sola preocupacion: el tratamiento cientifico de la cultura como medio que conduce al mejor conocimiento del hombre y la sociedad.