American librarianship is currently dominated by the physical thinking of scientific systems theory, which includes Bertalanffy's general system theory, Wiener's cybernetics, and the Hartley-Shannon theory of information. Postwar librarians have sacrificed the humanistic basis of librarianship and regard the use of science in librarianship as a settled issue.
(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) A 3-page selected bibliography is followed by a glossary and index of native words and personal names. The plates are presented in the following 10 groupings: villages, agricultural practices, religious and trancerites, industrialization social organization, physical elevation, respect learning (visual, kinaesthetic, balance) trance behavior, body surface, hands orifices of the body (mouth attitudes, eating habits, suckling habits, body products) autocosmic play (the baby, genital manipulation, toys, cock fighting) the roles of parents and children, temper tantrums, borrowed babies, trance behavior, witches, fear, sleep sibling rivalry and roles stages of male and female child development and birthday rituals, tooth-filing, marriage, death, funerals, exhumation practices. Each plate is accompanied by detailed explanatory captions. The photographs were taken by Bateson while Mead made verbal notes on the behavior being photographed. In a 48-page introduction Mead summarizes important considerations of the Balinese character to orient the reader for the 100 plates, containing 759 photographs selected from among 28,000 stills. The authors obtained their material in Bali in 1936-1938 and a 6-weeks period in 1939.
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