Melford Ε. Spiro

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Is the Western Conception of the Self “Peculiar” within the Context of the World Cultures? (1993) (329)
Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes (1983) (270)
Children of the Kibbutz (1959) (262)
Kibbutz : venture in utopia (1959) (163)
The Acculturation of American Ethnic Groups (1955) (102)
Culture and personality; the natural history of a false dichotomy. (1951) (94)
Buddhism and Economic Action in Burma1 (1966) (84)
Buddhism and society (1970) (79)
Context and Meaning in Cultural Anthropology (1967) (75)
Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes. (1972) (74)
Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited (1981) (73)
Burmese Supernaturalism: A Study in the Explanation and Reduction of Suffering (1969) (70)
Postmodernist Anthropology, Subjectivity, and Science: A Modernist Critique (1996) (70)
Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology (1986) (64)
Oedipus in the Trobriands (1986) (63)
The Muslims of Burma : a study of a minority group (1974) (58)
Virgin Birth, Parthenogenesis and Physiological Paternity: An Essay in Cultural Interpretation (1968) (55)
The Birth and Death of Meaning: A Perspective in Psychiatry and Anthropology (1963) (51)
Ghosts, Ifaluk, and Teleological Functionalism (1952) (50)
An atoll culture : ethnography of Ifaluk in the central Carolines (1953) (48)
A Cross-Cultural Study of Some Supernatural Beliefs† (1958) (44)
Is the Family Universal (1954) (43)
Culture and Human Nature: Theoretical Papers of Melford E. Spiro (1987) (35)
Marriage Payments: A Paradigm from the Burmese Perspective (1975) (33)
Gender Ideology and Psychological Reality: An Essay on Cultural Reproduction (1999) (32)
Kinship and Marriage in Burma: A Cultural and Psychodynamic Analysis (1979) (32)
On the strange and the familiar in recent anthropological thought (1990) (31)
Religion: Problems or Definition and Explanation (2020) (24)
Whatever Happened to the Id (1979) (24)
Anthropological Other or Burmese Brother?: Studies in Cultural Analysis (1991) (24)
Symposium on New Approaches to the Study of Religion (1964) (23)
Cultural Determinism, Cultural Relativism, and the Comparative Study of Psychopathology (2001) (22)
A Typology of Social Structure and the Patterning of Social Institutions: A Cross-Cultural Study (1965) (21)
Culture and Human Nature (2020) (14)
Ghosts: an anthropological inquiry into learning and perception. (1953) (14)
Utopia and Its Discontents: The Kibbutz and Its Historical Vicissitudes (2004) (13)
Education in a communal village in Israel. (1955) (13)
A psychotic personality in the South Seas. (1950) (12)
Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia (1956) (11)
Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth@@@Oedipus in the Trobriands (1983) (10)
Human Nature in Its Psychological Dimensions (1954) (9)
BURMESE SUPERNATURALISM, expanded edition (1977) (9)
Some Reflections on Family and Religion in East Asia (1984) (8)
Causes, Functions, and Cross-Cousin Marriage: An Essay in Anthropological Explanation (1964) (7)
Narcissus in Asia (1996) (7)
Tropes, defenses, and unconscious mental representation: some critical reflections on the primary process' (1993) (6)
An Open Letter to (2016) (5)
The “Primary Process” Revisited (1992) (5)
RELIGION AND MYTH: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Mary Douglas (1968) (4)
The Oedipus complex in Burma. (1973) (4)
The Sabras and Zionism: A Study in Personality and Ideology (1957) (4)
World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background . By S. J. Tambiah. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976. viii, 557 pp. Bibliography, Index. $37.50 (1977) (4)
RECENT ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT (2002) (4)
Ethnographic Notes on Conceptions and Dynamics of Political Power in Upper Burma (Prior to the 1962 Military Coup) (1997) (4)
Collective Representations and Mental Representations in Religious Symbol Systems (2020) (4)
Is the Oedipus Complex Universal? (2017) (4)
On symbols in anthropology (1982) (4)
Essays on Burma (1982) (4)
Anthropology and Human Nature (1999) (4)
Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravāda Buddhism. STEVEN COLLINS (1984) (3)
On symbols in anthropology : essays in honor of Harry Hoijer, 1980 (1982) (3)
ALFRED IRVING HALLOWELL 1892–1974 (1976) (3)
Cultural/Ethnology: Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry. Charles F. Keyes and E. Valentine Daniel (1984) (2)
Book Review: Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions (1954) (2)
Social Change and Functional Analysis: A Study in Burmese Psychocultural History (1973) (2)
Sorcery, Evil Spirits, and Functional Analysis: A Rejoinder (1961) (2)
Gender and culture (1979) (2)
Some Reflections on Cultural Determinism and Relativism with Special Reference to Emotion and Reason (2020) (2)
Reply to Professor Tambiah (1978) (2)
A Reply to Chaney or It All Depends on Whose Ox Is Being Gored (1966) (2)
Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia.@@@Molding Society to Man: Israel's New Adventure in Cooperation. (1956) (2)
Social Systems, Personality, and Functional Analysis (2020) (1)
Introduction: Thirty Years of Kibbutz Research (2020) (1)
GENERAL: From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences. (1969) (1)
The Internalization of a Burmese Gender Ideology (2019) (1)
The Oedipus Complex: Cross-Cultural Evidence. William N. Stephens (1963) (1)
Some Ifaluk Myths and Folk Tales (1951) (1)
Our Unsettled Constitution (2017) (1)
CHAPTER 8. INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION (1975) (0)
CHAPTER 15. THE SUPEREGO AND CULTURAL CONFORMITY (1975) (0)
Growing Up in the Kibbutz.@@@Children of the Kibbutz. (1967) (0)
CHAPTER 4. PARENTS AND OTHERS (1975) (0)
Books in review (1952) (0)
APPENDIX C. TEST RESULTS (1975) (0)
Is the Family Universal?—The Israeli Case (2020) (0)
Testing the Trobriand Oedipal Hypothesis: Predicted Psychological Concomitants (2017) (0)
Book Review:Shame and Guilt: A Psychoanalytic and a Cultural Study. Gerhart Piers, Milton B. Singer (1954) (0)
PSYCHOETHNOGRAPHY: Pygmies and Dream Giants. Kilton Stewart (1955) (0)
GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: The Evolution of Human Nature. C. Judson Herrick (1958) (0)
Supernaturalism: Some Explanations (2017) (0)
Book reviews (1966) (0)
The Thirty-Seven Nats: Some Explanations (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 11. MIDDLE CHILDHOOD (1975) (0)
The reality of sexual equality (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 13. ASPECTS OF ADOLESCENT PERSONALITY (1975) (0)
CHAPTER 10. THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX AND SEXUAL IDENTITY (1975) (0)
A Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava in 1865 . Compiled by Henry Yule. With an introduction by Hugh Tinker. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. xlvi, 391 pp. Illustrations, Appendix. $31.00. (1970) (0)
Testing the Trobriand Oedipal Hypothesis: Predicted Ontogenetic Determinants (2017) (0)
OTHER: The Family. William J. Goode (1965) (0)
Alfred Irving Hallowell: An Appreciation (2019) (0)
Book Review:Biennial Review of Anthropology, 1959 Bernard J. Siegel (1961) (0)
Ethnology and Ethnography: Naven. Gregory Bateson (1958) (0)
Violence in Burmese History (2017) (0)
OTHER: Handbook of Social Psychology. Gardner Lindzey (1955) (0)
COMMENTARY ON THEOLOGICAL RESOURCES FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (1966) (0)
The vicissitudes of institutional change (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 3. THE NURSE AND NURSERY TEACHER (1975) (0)
On the Theory of Social Change: How Economic Growth Begins. Everett E. Hagen (1963) (0)
Virgin Birth, Parthenogenesis, and Physiological Paternity: An Essay in Cultural Interpretation (2020) (0)
CHAPTER 1. THE NATURE OF A KIBBUTZ (1975) (0)
CHAPTER 9. OTHER BEHAVIOR SYSTEMS AND THEIR SOCIALIZATION (1975) (0)
Supernaturally Caused Illness and Its Treatment (2017) (0)
Context and meaning in cultural anthropology : in honor of A. Irving Hallowell (1965) (0)
APPENDIX B. HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Humanistika) (1975) (0)
CHAPTER 17. POSTSCRIPT: CHILDREN OF THE KIBBUTZ, 1974 (1975) (0)
In the Company of Man. Twenty portraits by anthropologists. Joseph B. Casagrande, Ed. Harper, New York, 1960. xvi + 540 pp. Illus. $6.50 (1960) (0)
: The Psychology and Psychotherapy of Otto Rank . Fay B. Karpf. ; The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry . Harry Stack Sullivan. ; Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality . Gerald S. Blum. (1954) (0)
CHAPTER 14. THE SABRA IN THE KIBBUTZ (1975) (0)
CHAPTER 5. THE CHILD’S RELATIONS WITH PARENTS AND PARENT-SURROGATES (1975) (0)
OTHER: Political Socialization. Richard E. Dawson and Kenneth Prewitt (1970) (0)
Religion, Personality and Behavior in Burma (1968) (0)
: Philosophy for the Future . Roy Wood Sellars, V. J. McGill, Marvin Farber. ; Ideological Differences and World Order . F. S. C. Northrop. (1950) (0)
PREFACE TO THE 1965 EDITION (1975) (0)
Religious Systems as Culturally Constituted Defense Mechanisms (2020) (0)
Ghosts and Demons (2017) (0)
OTHER: Changing Images of America: A Study of Indian Students' Perceptions. George V. Coelho (1959) (0)
CHAPTER 2. COLLECTIVE EDUCATION (1975) (0)
CHAPTER 16. ASPECTS OF EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT (1975) (0)
The Trobriand Matrilineal Complex: A Critique (2017) (0)
Volume Information (1967) (0)
Supernaturalism and Buddhism (2017) (0)
Human Behavior: Psychology as a Bio-Social Science. Lawrence E. Cole. Yonkers-on-the-Hudson.N. Y.: World Book, 1953. 884 pp. Illus. $5.50 (1953) (0)
ETHNOLOGY: Religion and Progress in Modern Asia. Robert N. Bellah, Religion in South Asia. Edward B. Harper (1966) (0)
Development and Change: The First Million Sabras: A Portrait of the Native‐born Israelis. HERBERT RUSSCOL and MARGALIT BANAI (1972) (0)
Human Behavior: Psychology as a Bio-Social Science . Lawrence E. Cole. Yonkers-on-the-Hudson. N. Y.: World Book, 1953. 884 pp. Illus. $5.50 (1953) (0)
The Trobriand Oedipus Complex: A Hypothesis (2017) (0)
The determinants of the counterrevolution (2017) (0)
The ideology of female liberation (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 7. FORMAL AND INFORMAL STRUCTURE (1975) (0)
Preculture and Gender (2020) (0)
Sex, Gender and Equality: Or, the Conversion of Melford E. Spiro@@@Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited (1981) (0)
Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership. Michael E. Mendelson. John P. Ferguson, ed (1977) (0)
Whatever Happened to the Id? (2020) (0)
[A Sense of the Past and a Sense of Guilt]: Discussion (1977) (0)
APPENDIX A. METHODS OF RESEARCH (1975) (0)
Other: Oneida Community: An Autobiography, 1851–1876. CONSTANCE NOYES ROBERTSON, ed (1972) (0)
Thirty-Seven Nats: The Public Cultus (2017) (0)
Symbolism and Functionalism in the Anthropological Study of Religion (1979) (0)
The Study of Supernaturalism (2017) (0)
The Problem Posed (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 12. THE HIGH SCHOOL (1975) (0)
The Thirty-Seven Nats A Typology (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 6. INFANCY (1975) (0)
The Exorcistic Seance (2017) (0)
Book Review:Symbolic Wounds: Puberty Rites and the Envious Male. Bruno Bettelheim (1955) (0)

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