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Rivalry and Superiority: Two Dominant Features of the Sumerian Culture Pattern

From the book Men and Cultures

  • Samuel Noah Kramer
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512819526-046
© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112
From the book
Men and Cultures
Men and Cultures

Chapters in this book (126)

Frontmatter
Preface
Contents
Papers Delivered to the Fifth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Introduction
The Hiawatha Wampum Belt of the Iroquois League for Peace: A Symbol for the International Congress of Anthropology
Section I: Current Status of Anthropological and Ethnological Studies
Current Trends in the Development of American Ethnology
Recent Developments in the Study of the Prehistory of Western Asia
Anthropology and the Smithsonian Institution
Anthropologie Physique en U.R.S.S.
Summary of Paleo-Anthropological Investigation in the U.S.S.R.
Recent Trends in British Social Anthropology
Trends in European Prehistory
Recent Developments in Ethnological Theory in Europe
Recent Developments and Trends in Ethnological Studies in China
Current Trends in Ethnography in the U.S.S.R.
Recent Developments in American Archeology
Recent Developments in the Field of Genetics
Section II: Theory and Method
Individual Variation in Culture
Conflict and Congruence in Anthropological Theory
Culture and Human Behavior
Anthropology and Art
Zum Problem der Konstanz in der Ethnologie
A Microcultural Analysis of Time
Thoughts on Methodology for Comprehension of an Oral Literature
Recreative Behavior and Culture Change
The Use of Typology in Anthropological Theory
Archeological Typology in Theory and Practice
Jazz Choreology
Methodological Problems of Free Doll Play as an Ethnographic Field Technique
A New Framework for Studies of Folklore and Survivals
A System for Describing and Analyzing the Regulation of Coordinated Activity
Typology in the Area of Social Organization
Aesthetics in “Primitive” Societies
Acculturation
Withdrawal, An Early Means of Dealing with the Supernatural
Subsystem Typology in Linguistics
The Ethnic Dimension of Human History: Pattern or Patterns of Culture?
Section III: Culture Change and Culture History
Some Similarities between Ards of the Balkans, Scandinavia, and Anterior Asia, and Their Methodological Significance
Slash-and-burn Agriculture: A Closer Look at its Implications for Settlement Patterns
Northwest Coast—Northeast Asiatic Similarities : A New Hypothesis
Techniques of Preparing Manioc Flour as a Key to Culture History in Tropical America
Culture Stability and Change among the Seminoles of Florida
The Evolution of Status Systems in Polynesia
Les Tendances Modernes de l’evolution des Sociétés Mélanésiennes (Nouvelles-Hébrides et Nouvelle-Calédonie)
A Re-Evaluation of the Cultural Position of the Nootka
Theoretical Considerations Concerning the Problem of Pre-Columbian Contacts between the Old World and the New
Ethnology and High Civilization, Exemplified by Ancient Egypt
Rivalry and Superiority: Two Dominant Features of the Sumerian Culture Pattern
Plow Complex, Culture Change and Cultural Stability
Three Hundred Years of Chukchi Ethnic Identity
North European Shamanism
The Assumed Early Mediterranean Influence among the Kuanyama Ambo Bantu of South West Africa
Irrigation, Settlement Pattern, and Social Organization
The Christian Hymnology of the North American Indians
The Acculturative Process in Jamaican Revivalism
Plough and Field Shape
A Umatilla Prophet Cult : An Episode in Culture Change
Cart-using Indians of the American Plains
The Study of the Early History of Agriculture in the Territory of the U.S.S.R. in 1945–1955
The Automobile in Contemporary Navaho Culture
History and Ethnohistory, and A Case in Point
Section IV: Ethnography
Les Origines Ethniques de la Population Marocaine Musulmane de Casablanca
Intertribal Relations in the Pueblo Kachina Cult
Un Complexe Culturel: La Course de Pirogues au Laos
The Idoma Court-of-Lineages in Law and Political Structure
The Fear in Tapirapé Culture
Yoruba Concepts of the Soul
A New Ecological Typology of the California Indians
Autobiography of A Guatemalan Indian
Les Communautés d’Entraide des Bambara du Soudan Français
A Comparison of Eastern Keresan and Tewa Kinship Systems
Some Reflections on Chiga Ethics
Sequence and Structure in Folktales
Circumpolar Forest North America as a Modern Culture Area
Medicinal Plant and Food use as related to Health and Disease in Coastal Oaxaca
Le Concept de Crime en Droit Djarai
Aspects de la Royauté Bateke (Moyen-Congo)
The Role of Music in Western Apache Culture
Double Descent in an Ibo Village-Group
La Notion de Mana dans la Culture Haïtienne
The Calf Sacrifice of the Todas of the Nilgiris (South India)
Polygamie et ses Particularités
Production, Distribution and Power in a Primitive Society
Tipi di Cultura nel Paraguay
The Maintenance of Unity and Distinctiveness by a Philippine Peasant Village
Contrasting Patterns of Carolinian Population Distribution in the Marianas
The Birhor (The Little Nomadic Tribe of India)
The Inter-Relations of Castes and Ethnic Groups in Nepal
Section V: Archaeology
Human Types and Prehistoric Cultures at Ksâr ’Akil, Lebanon
Culture Change in Europe at the Start of the Second Millennium B.C.: A Contribution to the Indo-European Problem
Rocker-Stamped Pottery in the Old and New World
North Mexico and the Correlation of Mesoamerican and Southwestern Cultural Sequences
Paleo-Eskimo in Disko Bay, West Greenland
The Plains Archaic Concept
Prehistoric Culture Sequences in the Eastern Arctic as Elucidated by Stratified Sites at Igloolik
Archaism and Revival on the South Coast of Peru
The Preclassic Ceramic Sequence of Huapalcalco, of Tulancingo, Hgo
The Mixteca-Puebla Concept in Mesoamerican Archeology: A Re-examination
El Patio mas Antiguo de Mesoamerica
Cultural Unity and Diversification in Peruvian Archaeology
The Gulf Coastal Plain in North American Prehistory
The Paleo-Indian Culture Succession in the Central High Plains of Texas and New Mexico
Western Siberian Archeology, An Interpretative Summary
Section VI: Physical Anthropology
Physical and Psychological Factors in Culture Growth
The Pattern of Development of African Children
A Study of the Rotation of the Occipital Region in the Neandertal and Sapiens Skulls
El Poblamiento Paleolitico de España
Small Isolated Human Breeding Populations and Their Significance for the Process of Racial Differentiation
La Paléodémographie, Base Nouvelle de l’Analyse Anthropologique
Significance of Recent Primatology for Physical Anthropology
New Research in German Forensic Anthropology
Partial Volumes and Surface Areas of the Human Body
Changes in the Skull Features of the Japanese People from Ancient to Modem Times
Primate Evolution and Human Behavior
Les Proportions de la Tête Chez les Français
A Study of the Racial Morphology of the French Population
The Evolutionary Taxonomy of the Hominidae in the Light of the Piltdown Investigation
Section VII: Applied Anthropology
Applied Anthropology in the Belgian Territories in Africa (An Experience of Integration of the Tribal Institutions into the Pattern of the New Social Action in Central Africa)
De Quelques Difficultés dues aux Différences de Cultures, Rencontrées dans les Missions d’Assistance Technique
Applied Anthropology, Community Welfare, and Human Conservation
Section VIII: Linguistics
The Southwest Project in Comparative Psycholinguistics: A Preliminary Report
The Urbanization of the Guarani Language—A Problem in Language and Culture
The General Classification of Central and South American Languages
The Origin of the Hausa Language
Tonality in Efik Signal Communication and Folklore
Author Index
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