Melford Spiro

Melford Elliot Spiro ( born April 26, 1920) is an American cultural anthropologist.

He became known for his work on the Westermarck effect and its studies on the kibbutz. The Journal Bulletin dealt with his 1979 study published on Women and Gender in the Israeli kibbutz movement.

Publications

  • Spiro, Melford E. (1984 ) "Some Reflections on Cultural Determinism and Relativism with Special Reference to Emotion and Reason. " Pp 323-346 in Culture Theory: essays on mind, self, and emotion, edited by RA Shweder and RA LeVine. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Spiro, Melford E. (1986 ) "Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology. " Cultural Anthropology: Vol 1, No. 3, 259-286.
  • Spiro, Melford E. (1987 ) "Religious systems as culturally constituted defense mechanisms. " Pp 145-160 in Culture and Human Nature: theoretical papers of Melford E. Spiro, edited by B. Kilborne and LL Langness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Spiro, Melford E. (1992 ) "On the strange and familiar in recent anthropological thought. " Pp 53-70 in Anthropological Other or Burmese Brother? edited by M. E. Spiro. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press.
  • Spiro, Melford E. (1993 ) " Is the Western conception of the self " peculiar "within the context of the world cultures? " Ethos 21:107 - 153
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