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Kibbutz: venture in UtopiaBook 1956 • Spiro, Melford E.
Israelis • Middle East > Middle East
This monograph is an anthropological study of KIRYAT YEDIDIM, the fictitious name of a collective settlement or KIBBUTZ in Israel studied by the author between February 1951 to December 1951. Spiro begins his work with an analysis of the nature of th...Burmese supernaturalismBook 1978 • Spiro, Melford E.
Burmans • Asia > Southeast Asia
This book is concerned with Burmese religious beliefs, rituals and practioners as observed by the author in 1961-1962. The focus is on a variety of supernatural beliefs - ghosts, demons, witches and spirits whom villagers in the upper Burma call nats...Kinship and marriage in BurmaBook 1977 • Spiro, Melford E.
Burmans • Asia > Southeast Asia
This book is concerned with kinship and marriage among villagers in Yeigyi, a locality in Upper Burma. The focus is partly theoretical, exploring the extent to which psychodynamic personality theory, in conjunction with functionalist cultural theory,...Gender hierarchy in Burmaessay 1993 • Spiro, Melford E.
Burmans • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a discussion of how gender inequality is constructed in Burmese culture. According to the author, there are two principle ideologies at work. One is the the Ideology of the Superior Male and the other is the Ideology of the Dangerous Female. ...Oedipus in the TrobriandsBook 1982 • Spiro, Melford E.
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
In this work, Spiro reanalyses Malinowski's interpretation of the Oedipus complex in the Trobriands (see 11: Malinowski) and argues '…that if the existence of the Oedipus complex is culturally variable, the Trobriands, at least, do not constitute evi...Ifalukbook chapter 1949 • Spiro, Melford E.
Woleai Region • Oceania > Micronesia
In addition to general cultural information this source contains considerable data on child training and many of the author's interpretations of Ifalik personality....A Psychotic personality in the South Seasbook chapter 1950 • Spiro, Melford E.
Woleai Region • Oceania > Micronesia
This is one of the few available accounts of a psychotic from a pre-literate society. It contains several interviews from the author's field notes as well as an interesting interpretation of the case....An atoll cultureBook 1953 • Burrows, Edwin G. (Edwin Grant) & Spiro, Melford E.
Woleai Region • Oceania > Micronesia
This is a general ethnographic description of the Ifaluk people of Weleai Region in the Federated States of Micronesia with particular emphasis on fishing, gardening, canoe making, residence pattern, kinship system, government, religion, life cylces ...