Authors: Anthony F. C. Wallace, Robert S. Grumet, Robert S. Grumet
ISBN-13: 9780803298361, ISBN-10: 0803298366
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Anthony F. C. Wallace is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, including The Social Context of Innovation: Bureaucrats, Families, and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution, as Foreseen in Bacon's "New Atlantis" (Nebraska 2003). Robert S. Grumet is an archaeologist for the National Park Service, Mid-Atlantic Region. He is the editor of Northeastern Indian Lives: 1632-1816 and the author of Historic Contact: Indian People and Colonists in Today's Northeastern United States in the Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries.
Anthony F. C. Wallace, one of the most influential American anthropologists of the modern era, brings together some of his most stimulating and celebrated writings. These essays feature his seminal work on revitalization movements, which has profoundly shaped our understanding of the processes of change in religious and political organizations—from the nineteenth-century code of the Seneca prophet known as Handsome Lake to the origins of world religions and political faiths. Wallace also discusses mazeways—mental maps that join personalities with cultures and thereby illustrate how individuals embrace their culture, conduct everyday life, and cope with illness and other forms of severe personal or cultural stress.
Wallace offers a set of penetrating observations and analyses of change on topics ranging from immediate responses to disasters to long-term technological adaptations and transformations in artistic style. Wallace's theories, fieldwork, and concepts featured in this landmark volume continue to challenge scholars across disciplines, including anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and theologians.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Pt. I | Processes of Culture Change | |
1 | Revitalization Movements | 9 |
2 | The Dekanawideh Myth Analyzed as the Record of a Revitalization Movement | 30 |
3 | New Religions among the Delaware Indians, 1600-1900 | 38 |
4 | Handsome Lake and the Decline of the Iroquois Matriarchate | 57 |
5 | Paradigmatic Processes in Culture Change | 68 |
6 | Technology in Culture: The Meaning of Cultural Fit | 85 |
7 | Paradigms and Revolutions in the Arts | 120 |
Pt. II | Culture and Personality | |
8 | The Disaster Syndrome | 149 |
9 | Mazeway Resynthesis: A Biocultural Theory of Religious Inspiration | 164 |
10 | Mazeway Disintegration: The Individual's Perception of Socio-Cultural Disorganization | 178 |
11 | Dreams and the Wishes of the Soul: A Type of Psychoanalytic Theory among the Seventeenth Century Iroquois | 189 |
12 | The Psychic Unity of Human Groups | 207 |
13 | Mental Illness, Biology, and Culture | 225 |
14 | The Trip | 262 |
15 | The Identity Struggle | 269 |
References Cited | 311 | |
Source Acknowledgments | 325 | |
Index | 327 |