HomeView Cart
Dover HomeStore DirectoryCustomer Service
Dover Publications
Save $10!
New ReleasesFREE SAMPLESMY ACCOUNTDover's Safe Shopping GuaranteeSave with Free Shipping on orders of $50 or more
Search
Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
by William Graham Sumner

ISBN: 0486424960
Dover Publications Price: $26.95
click here to see this book


This century-old classic of sociology offers thousands of illustrations of the social, sexual, and religious customs of ancient Greece and Rome, Africa, Australia, Melanesia, Japan, China, India, as well as medieval Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and modern Western civilization in Europe and America. Subjects include labor, wealth, slavery, cannibalism, marriage, education, and many other absorbing topics.

Table of Contents for Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
CHAPTER
I. FUNDAMENTAL NOTIONS OF THE FOLKWAYS AND OF THE MORES
II. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MORES
III. THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE
IV. "LABOR, WEALTH"
V. SOCIETAL SELECTION
VI. SLAVERY
VII. "ABORTION, INFANTICIDE, KILLING THE OLD"
VIII. CANNIBALISM
IX. SEX MORES
X. THE MARRIAGE INSTITUTION
XI. THE SOCIAL CODES
XII. INCEST
XIII. "KINSHIP, BLOOD REVENGE, PRIMITIVE JUSTICE, PEACE UNIONS"
XIV. UNCLEANNESS AND THE EVIL EYE
XV. THE MORES CAN MAKE ANYTHING RIGHT AND PREVENT CONDEMNATION OF ANYTHING
XVI. "SACRAL HARLOTRY, CHILD SACRIFICE"
XVII. "POPULAR SPORTS, EXHIBITIONS, DRAMA"
XVIII. ASCETICISM
XIX. "EDUCATION, HISTORY"
XX. "LIFE POLICY, VIRTUE VS. SUCCESS"
"LIST OF BOOKS (Works are under the name of the author, or the leading word of the title)."
INDEX

Join the Dover Family | Track Your Order | Your Account | Shipping Rates and Policies | Returns | Customer Service | Free Samples | About Dover | Privacy Notice | Terms of Use | Join Our Staff | Free Catalogs