Analysis of a Culture Through Its Culturemes: Theory and Method

Chapters in this book

1. I-XVI I
2. SECTION ONE: General Papers
3. Introduction 3
4. Sociocultural Aspects of Man-Environment Studies 7
5. The Social Function of the Built Environment 37
6. Cultural Pluralism and Urban Form: The Colonial City as Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research in Man-Environment Interaction 51
7. How Can We Learn about Man and His Settlements? 77
8. SECTION TWO: Human Characteristics
9. Introduction 121
10. Design for Man-Environment Relations 127
11. Human Territoriality as an Object of Research in Cultural Anthropology 145
12. The Social Properties of Places and Things 159
13. Some Territorial Layouts in the United States 177
14. SECTION THREE: Environments
15. Introduction 225
16. A Description of the Maori Marae 229
17. Peasant House Building and Its Relation to Church Building: The Rumanian Case 243
18. SECTION FOUR: Mechanisms
19. Introduction 257
20. Analysis of a Culture Through Its Culturemes: Theory and Method 265
21. A Decision Model for Estimating Concurrent School Attendance among Tribal Peoples of Liberia, Together with an Application Regarding Differential Cognitions Toward Traditional Housing 275
22. Housing Standards versus Ecological Forces: Regulating Population Density in Bombay 287
23. Conceptual Patterns in Yoruba Culture 333
24. Values, Science, and Settlement: A Case Study in Environmental Control 365
25. Landscape and the Communication of Social Identity 391
26. SECTION FIVE: Case Studies
27. Introduction 405
28. Residential Patterns and Population Movement into the Farmlands of Yorubaland 411
29. A Process of Urbanization: Economic and Social Innovations in a Suburban Village at Fukuyama, Japan 431
30. Preindustrial Kabul: Its Structure and Function in Transformational Processes in Afghanistan 441
31. Problems Involved in the Human Aspects of Rural Resettlement Schemes in Egypt 453
32. SECTION SIX: Conclusion
33. Conclusion 485
34. Biographical Notes 491
35. Index of Names 497
36. Index of Subjects 503