Folkways A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals,9780486424965

Folkways A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

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ISBN13: 9780486424965
ISBN10: 0486424960
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-09-16
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary

This century-old classic of sociology offers thousands of illustrations of the social, sexual, and religious customs of ancient Greece, Rome, medieval Christianity, Judaism, Africa, Islam, Australia, Japan, China, India, and modern Western civilization in Europe and America. Subjects include labor, wealth, slavery, cannibalism, marriage, education, and many other absorbing topics.

Table of Contents

Fundamental Notions of the Folkways and of the Mores
1(74)
Characteristics of the Mores
75(44)
The Struggle for Existence
119(39)
Labor, Wealth
158(15)
Societal Selection
173(88)
Slavery
261(47)
Abortion, Infanticide, Killing the Old
308(21)
Cannibalism
329(13)
Sex Mores
342(53)
The Marriage Institution
395(22)
The Social Codes
417(62)
Incest
479(14)
Kinship, Blood Revenge, Primitive Justice, Peace Unions
493(16)
Uncleanness and the Evil Eye
509(12)
The Mores can make Anything Right and prevent Condemnation of Anything
521(12)
Sacral Harlotry, Child Sacrifice
533(27)
Popular Sports, Exhibitions, Drama
560(45)
Asceticism
605(23)
Education, History
628(11)
Life Policy, Virtue vs. Success
639(16)
List of Books (Works are under the name of the author, or the leading word of the title) 655(16)
Index 671

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