On Ethnic Unit Classification [and Comments and Reply]
| Autor: | Otto von Mering, Melvin Ember, Harold E. Driver, Paul Ducey, Frank D. Bessac, Frank W. Moore, David Landy, Hans Hoffmann, Simon D. Messing, Gertrude E. Dole, John W. M. Whiting, Raoul Naroll, Ronald M. Berndt, Leigh M. Triandis, Mervyn Jaspan, Ramkrishna Mukherjee, Gideon, Eliot D. Chapple, Helmuth Fuchs, George Peter Murdock, Linvill Watson, Artur Hehl Neiva, Edmund Leach, Andree F. Sjoberg, C. F. Voegelin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1964 |
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| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 5:283-312 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/200501 |
| Popis: | This paper discusses the general concept of the basic culture-bearing unit and proposes a new definition-the cultunit. This proposal is a response to the need for units of cross-cultural surveys to be comparable and to be rigorously defined if these studies are to be validated statistically. Such anthropologists as Schapera, Berndt, Whiting, Evans-Pritchard, Reichard, Radcliffe-Brown, Fortes, Ember, Murdock, Nadel, Leach and Driver have given much thought to the problem of defining basic culture-bearing units. From their writings, we can see at least six possible criteria for defining societal units: (1) language (which nearly everyone thinks is important), (2) political organization, (3) territorial contiguity, (4) distribution of particuar traits being studied, (5) ecological adjustment, and (6) local community structure. The cultunit concept uses the first three of these: a cultunit is defined as a group of people who are domestic speakers of mutually intelligible dialects and who also belong to the sa... |
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