Author: Melford E. Spiro

Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation — a matrilineal complex — different from Freud’s …

Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation — a matrilineal complex — different from Freud’s …

Based on a study of the Israeli kibbutz movement, Gender and Culture discusses the differences in male and female orientations to marriage, the family, and work. Spiro describes the counterrevolution …

Based on a study of the Israeli kibbutz movement, Gender and Culture discusses the differences in male and female orientations to marriage, the family, and work. Spiro describes the counterrevolution …

Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory. For years …

Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory. For years …

This volume illustrates Melford Spiro’s explorations of key relationships among culture, society, and human nature. He addresses such fundamental issues as the limitations of cultural relativism, the …

This volume illustrates Melford Spiro’s explorations of key relationships among culture, society, and human nature. He addresses such fundamental issues as the limitations of cultural relativism, the …

The current Western interest in Buddhism and other Eastern religions is–among other reasons–both the result of and the stimulation for an entire library of books purporting to bring the Wisdom of …