The Relevance of culture / [electronic resource] / edited by Morris Freilich.. — New York : : Bergin & Garvey Publishers,, 1989.. — vi, 250 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : is culture still relevant? / Morris Freilich -- "Plot" and the concept of culture in historiography / Anthony F.C. Wallace -- Culture and collective action / Mary Douglas -- Frames of reference come from cultures : a predictive theory / Aaron Wildavsky -- Culture in its places : a humanistic presentation / Miles Richardson and Robert Dunton -- Culture : concept and phenomenon / Ward H. Goodenough -- Information, technology, and culture / Judith A. Perrolle -- A Darwinian theory for the evolution of symbolic cultural traits / Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Ethnoecology : the relevance of cognitive anthropology for human ecology / Eugene Hunn -- Masked suicide and culture / Karin R. Andriolo -- Nursing and culture at the end of the twentieth century / Sharleen H. Simpson.The relevance of culture to science and technology policy / Steve Rayner -- Proper rules, smart rules, and police discretion / Morris Freilich and Frank A. Schubert.