Showing papers on "Culture change published in 1977"

culture change and psychosocial adjustment

Abstract: Three positions identified in the literature on the relationship between culture change and psychosocial adjustment are tested in a comparative study of Inuit (Eskimos) and Cree Indians in a northern Canadian settlement. Both descriptive and statistical evidence indicate that no universal association between change and adjustment obtains and that any relationship existing between them is case-specific and is due to the situational and cultural contexts of change. Implications of these findings for theory and research are also suggested.

Prehistoric Transpacific Contact and the Theory of Culture Change

Abstract: Employing genetic theory as an analog, the paper argues that when the concept of culture is separated from the concept of society, anthropology can be shown to have depended for culture-change theory on a genetic model, which predicts pre-Columbian contact between the Old and New World, a prediction which is supported by a growing list of cultural parallels. [prehistoric transpacific contact, culture, society, culture change, scientific explanation]

Culture Change and Education at Wankung, Papua New Guinea1

Abstract: The research location was Wankung Village some 100 mi.les west of Lae, Papua New Guinea, one of 10 villages situated on the southern side of the upper Markham Valley, bordered by the Umi River, the highlands highway and Kassam Pass. The people, who are Adzera speakers, are referred to as the Amari and administratively they are in the Kaiapit sub-district. The area has been in contact with the outside world for approximately 70 years, through Lutheran mission activities, Government agencies, Allied and Japanese armed forces during the Second World War, and the indentured labour system. The soci,al structure is based on named