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Melford E. Spiro
This volume illustrates Melford Spiro’s explorations of key relationships among culture, society, and human nature
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Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation – a matrilineal complex – different from Freud’s Oedipus complex and…
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This volume illustrates Melford Spiro’s explorations of key relationships among culture, society, and human nature. He addresses such fundamental issues as the limitations of cultural relativism, the problem of explanation…
Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory
The Western interest in Buddhism and other Eastern religions is - among other reasons - both the result of and the stimulation for an entire library of books purporting to…
Volume 15 features Melford Spiro’s Culture and Human Nature and The internalization of Burmese Gender Identity along with an interview of Spiro by B. Kilbourne and S. Bolle. Additional topics…
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Mr Melford E Spiro
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Based on a study of the Israeli kibbutz movement, Gender and Culture discusses the differences in male and female orientations to marriage, the family, and work
