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ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM

VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1  FEBRUARY 1984

EDITORS

Editor, Miles Richardson, Louisiana State University
Managing Editor, Linda Long McQueen
Editorial Assistant, Maria Cashion

Associate Editors
M. Jill Brody, Louisiana State University
Bruce Grindal, Florida State University
Gregory Reck, Appalachian State University

Book Review Editor
Nancy J. Schmidt, Indiana University

ADVISORY BOARD

Robert P. Armstrong, University of Texas. Dallas
Gerald D. Berreman, University of California, Berkeley
David Bidney, Indiana University (Retired)
Johnetta B. Cole, University of Massachusetts
Francis L. K. Hsu, University of San Francisco
Norris Brock Johnson, University of North Carolina
Arden King, Tulane University
Gilbert Kushner, University of South Florida
L. L. Langness, University of California, Los Angeles
Alfred McClung Lee, City University of New York Brooklyn
Bob Scholte, University of Amsterdam
Robert F. Spencer, University of Minnesota
George Stocking, University of Chicago
Marea Teski, Stockton State College
Colin M. Turnbull, George Washington University
Dennis M. Warren, Iowa State University
Stanley Wilk, Lycoming College
Valentine Winsey, Pace University

CONTENTS

Icelandic Saga Heroes. The Anthropology of Natural
Existentialists
- E. Paul Durrenberger   3

The Return of a Queen
- William J. Alexander   9

Civilization and Other Cultures. Vicessitudes of “The
Comparative Method” in Anthropology
- Gifford S. Nickerson   12

Book Reviews   21

Editor’s Welcome
- Miles Richardson   23

Information for Contributors   24

SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Humanism has historically made the human endeavor the subject of its concerns. Humanistic anthropology seeks to bring the intellectual resources of the discipline to bear upon this subject. While not blind to the constraints within which we humans operate. Humanistic anthropology, in the tradition of the discipline, celebrates that human reality is one that we creative primates construct. Accordingly, it recognizes that anthropological inquiry constitutes a part of that construct; it also recognizes that anthropological inquiry contributes both to an understanding of the human world and to a critical assessment of it.

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology was Founded at the 1974 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Mexico City. Membership is open to all who share an enthusiasm both in humans and in anthropology. The Society meets annually with the American Anthropological Association.


Copyright c 1984 by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 1703 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009. All rights reserved. The mandala on the cover is after a Shri-Yantra meditation pattern from Buddhist ritual (see also) Sybil Monoly-Nagy’s Matrix of Man published in 1968 by Praeger, New York).


 

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