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Melford E. Spiro (1920–2014)

Author of Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia

13+ Works 358 Members 1 Review

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Includes the names: Spiro Melford E, Melford Elliot Spiro, 麥爾福．史拜羅(Melford E. Spiro)著;香光�

Works by Melford E. Spiro

Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia (1963) 131 copies

Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes (1971) 72 copies

Children of the Kibbutz: A Study in Child Training and Personality (1965) 66 copies, 1 review

Burmese Supernaturalism (1967) 40 copies

Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited (1979) 20 copies

Culture and Human Nature: Theoretical Papers of Melford E. Spiro (1987) 9 copies

Oedipus in the Trobriands (1982) 7 copies

Context and meaning in cultural anthropology (1965) 4 copies

Kinship and Marriage in Burma: A Cultural and Psychodynamic Analysis (1986) 3 copies

Anthropological Other or Burmese Brother?: Studies in Cultural Analysis (1991) 3 copies

Proceedings of the 1964 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society: Symposium on New Approaches to the Study of Religion 1 copy

Is the family universal? / Melford E. Spiro 1 copy

Burmese supernaturalism, etc 1 copy

Associated Works

Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach (1958) — Contributor — 221 copies

Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion (1966) — Contributor — 60 copies

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Legal name: Spiro, Melford Elliot
Birthdate: 1920-04-26
Date of death: 2014-10-18
Gender: male
Education: University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D|1950)
Occupations: cultural anthropologist
Organizations: National Academy of Sciences

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Members: 358
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Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 44
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