Melford Elliot Spiro (1920 – 2014) was an American cultural anthropologist specializing in religion and psychological anthropology.
摘要
The studies collected in this volume represent Spiro's contention that despite marked differences, non-Western peoples are "brother," not "other," and that the opportunity to construct a genuine cross-cultural science with commanding universals remains compelling.
目次
A critique of cultural relativism, with special reference to epistemological relativism On the strange and the familiar in recent anthropological thought Images of man, nature, and the supernatural in Theravada Buddhism Buddhism and economic action in Burma Marriage payments: a paradigm from the Burmese perspective Factionalism and politics in village Burma Some psychodynamic determinants of household composition in village Burma Social change and functional analysis: a study in Burmese psychocultural history The internalization of a Burmese gender ideology
