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.