Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs.

    Why long hair? Why the turn to drugs and the inner trip? But the changes do not only affect the young, they are part of all of us. Why the new, intense concern with fashion? Why the rapid expansion of the old limits of what was "proper"? Why that "gap" that divides the generations?"'Daddy, are we live or on tape?'"The book takes the form of a notebook of images and commentaries juxtaposed in dramatic contrasts and continuities. Its rhythms are more concentrated and more violent than those experienced in conventional work. They belong to the world of icon, graffiti, cartoon—our world.

    

    Africa to S. America in a 45' papyrus boat modelled on those depicted in Egyptian wall paintings. A violent storm ended the 1st expedition but within a year the seven men had embarked on their 2nd journey in Ra II.One riddle, two answers & no solution Why a reed boat? To the Indians in the Cactus ForestWith Bedouin & Buduma in the heart of AfricaAmong Black monks at the source of the Nile In the world of the Pyramid-builders Out in the Atlantic Down the African coast to Cape JubyIn the clutches of the sea Into American waters RA II, by papyrus boat from Africa to AmericaPostscript

    The Ghost Dance takes its place beside other great studies of religion, such as those by Sigmund Freud, Geza Roheim or Mircea Eliade. It draws together his explorations of shamanism, world religion, Native American culture, altered states of consciousness and the use of drugs in belief systems.

    Structures and behavioral patterns that evolved in the service of discrete functions sometimes allow for unforeseen new developments as a side effect. In retrospect, they have proven to be pre-adaptations, and serve as raw material for natural selection to work upon. Love and Hate was intended to complement Konrad Lorenz's book, On Aggression, by pointing out our motivations to provide nurturing, and thus to counteract and correct the widespread but one-sided opinion that biologists always present nature as bloody in tooth and claw and intra-specific aggression as the prime mover of evolution. This simplistic image is, nonetheless, still with us, all the more regrettably because it hampers discussion across scholarly disciplines. Eibl-Eibesfeldt argues that leaders in individualized groups are chosen for their pro-social abilities. Those who comfort group members in distress, who are able to intervene in quarrels and to protect group members who are attacked, those who share, those who, in brief, show abilities to nurture, are chosen by the others as leaders, rather than those who use their abilities in competitive ways. Of course, group leaders may need, beyond their pro-social competence, to be gifted as orators, war leaders, or healers. Issues of love and hate are social in origin and hence social in consequence. Life has emerged on this planet in a succession of new forms, from the simplest algae to man-man the one being who reflects upon this creation, who seeks to fashion it himself and who, in the process, may end by destroying it. It would indeed be grotesque if the question of the meaning of life were to be solved in this way. In language that is clear and accessible throughout, arguing forcefully for the innate and "preprogrammed" dispositions of behavior in higher vertebrates, including humans, Eibl-Eibesfeldt steers a middle course in discussing the development of cultural and ethical norms while insisting on their matrix of biological origins.

    When Aldine originally published this book in 1969, the emerging multidisciplinary field of alcohol studies was dominated by biology, chemistry, physiology, and other "hard sciences." As such, writes Dwight Heath in his new foreword, the work challenged the prevailing wisdom in the authors' use of historical, ethnographic, and cross-cultural data and their analysis of drinking behavior as an anthropological and sociocultural phenomenon.

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    and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of Dr King’s assassination. Three thousand people set up camp for six weeks in a makeshift town that was dubbed Resurrection City, and participated in daily protests. Freedman lived in the encampment for its entire six weeks, photographing the residents, their daily lives, their protests and their eventual eviction.This new 50th-anniversary edition of the book reprints most of the pictures from the original publication, with improved printing and a more vivid design. Alongside Freedman’s hard-hitting original text, two introductory essays are included, by John Edwin Mason, historian of African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia, and by Aaron Bryant, Curator of Photography at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

    Efforts to understand morality by exploring human reason will always fail because we are creatures of desire as well. All morality arises from our intense and inescapable longing. The distinction between good and evil is always clouded by rationalists who convert the real problems of ethics into complex philosophical puzzles.In the first part of Good and Evil, Taylor looks for a more meaningful conception by reexamining and rejecting the whole rationalistic tradition that dominates philosophical ethics. The second part provides an empirical explanation of good and evil, noting that one does not have to look too far to find prime examples of the failure of fixed moral rules.Including important commentary on Joseph Fletcher's groundbreaking situation ethics, and Aristotle's virtues (e.g., magnanimity and pride), Taylor rounds out the book by developing a philosophy of aspiration--personal worth as an ethical ideal--to replace the morality of duty. He offers a modified form of situation ethics to fit the contemporary problems we face.

    

    Contents: Preface, A Short History of Ethology, The Ethogram: A Behavioral Inventory, The Fixed Action Pattern (Inborn Skills), Motivating Factors, Behavior as a Response to a Stimulus, Releasers (Expressive Movements and Other Social Signals), Natural Models and Mimicry, Reaction Chains, The Heirarchical Organization of Behavior, Phylogenetic Development of Behavior Patterns, The Ontogeny of Behavior Patterns, Mechanisms of Learning, Ecology and Behavior, Orientation in Space, Temporal Factors in Behavior, The Ethology of Man, Bibliography, Author Index, Subject Index.

    Thomas Gladwin has written a beautiful and perceptive book which describes the complex navigational systems of the Puluwat natives, yet has done so principally to provide new insights into the effects of poverty in Western cultures.The cognitive system which enables the Puluwatans to sail their canoes without instruments over trackless expanses of the Pacific Ocean is sophisticated and complex, yet the Puluwat native would score low on a standardized intelligence test. The author relates this discrepancy between performance and measured abilities to the educational problems of disadvantaged children. He presents his arguments simply and clearly, with sensitive and detailed descriptions and many excellent illustrations. His book will appeal to anthropologists, psychologists, and sailing enthusiasts alike.

    

    

    

    They reveal the naturalist Gilbert White scanning his rural world with such unflagging enthusiasm over a period of 25 years that it is almost as if he were giving "names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field," and to the plants, for the very first time. His daily entries also regard the wind and weather and the geology and ecology of his world, nor does he neglect its humanity.This edition consists of excerpts from among the full 10,000 daily records found in the unpublished journals. These excerpts cover each of the years from 1768 to 1793.Gilbert White (1720-1793) studied theology at Oxford and was ordained in 1747. He devoted his life to his native parish of Selborne, in Hampshire, and to observing the natural history and antiquities of its environs. In 1789 his "Natural History of Selborne, " which may still be the most widely read of all nature books, was published. His writings altogether are enhanced by a delightful simplicity of style and by a precision of naturalistic scientific observation. White had an eye for the minute which could also embrace the full grandeur of nature in all its ripeness. He can even restore a temporary wholeness to his readers, one of whom remarked that "to read him is to find one's own world mended. I think it is the way he steadies the mind."These five typical days from 1784 may afford a subliminal glimpse of his world: ""Apr. 15." Dog-toothed violets blow.""Apr. 16." Nightingale heard in Maidendance. Ring-dove builds in my fields. Black-cap sings.""Apr. 17." The buds of the vines are not swelled yet at all. In fine springs they have shot by this time two or three inches.""Apr. 19." Timothy the tortoise begins to stir; he heaves-up the mould that lies over his back. Red-start is heard at the verge of the highwood against the common....""Apr. 23." Timothy the tortoise comes forth from his winter-retreat."

    Small wooden dolls carved in the likenesses of the various kachinas are used to help teach Hopi children the tribal religion and traditions. Each child receives a doll made especially for him by his male relatives. He treasures the doll and studies it so that he can learn to recognize and respect the host of spirit kachinas that people the Hopi world.Kachinas are difficult to classify because different Hopi pueblos have different ideas about their appearance and their functions. The late Dr. Harold S. Colton identified 266 different kinds of kachina dolls, and in this book he describes the meaning, the making, and the principal features of all of them. Each type of doll is pictured in a simplified line drawing. There is also an illustrated key to help the collector identify the various types.

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    His chronicles of Peru, published in 1553 and 1880, rank with Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s account of the conquest of Mexico. While previous English translations have been much abridged, and for many years unavailable, this translation of the Inca materials by Harriet de Onís is not only accurate but possesses a superb literary quality of its own. Victor W. von Hagen skillfully interjoined Cieza’s two chronicles to read as one, in order to bring “Cieza together with himself after four hundred years of excision.” As a boy of thirteen, Cieza arrived in Cartagena in 1535 and traveled through South America for the next seventeen years, observing the country and its peoples and preserving the achievements of Inca civilization, even as it was being destroyed. Cieza was no fine scholar recording the conquest, but wrote that he “saw strange and wonderful things that exist in this New World of the Indies, and there came over me a great desire to write certain of them.”  And write them he did.