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• ISBN: 0231044186
• ISBN: 9780231044189
• ISBN: 0231044194
• ISBN: 9780231044196
• Physical Description: xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 1978.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-316) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : Diaphasis and change in human populations / Charles D. Laughlin, Jr. and Ivan A. Brady -- Rethinking the Ik : a functional non-social system / Colin M. Turnbull -- Adaptation and exchange in So : a diachronic study of deprivation / Charles D. Laughlin, Jr. -- Gross stress in small islands : a study in macropsychiatry / John Cawte -- Resource fluctuations and competitive transformations in West Indian slave societies / Robert Dirks -- Survival and reciprocity : the case of urban marginality in Mexico / Larissa Lomnitz -- Cultural and biological adaptations to deprivation : the Northern Ojibwa case / Charles A. Bishop -- Survival or extinction : reflections on the problem of famine in Tsimshian and Kaguru mythology / John J. Cove -- Stability and change : wherewithal for survival on a Coral Island / Ivan A. Brady -- Epilogue : adaptation and anthropological theory / Ivan A Brady and Charles D. Laughlin, Jr.

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