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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award アニスフィールド=ウルフしょう

Edition 45 (1980)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

2 people
Richard Borshay Lee りちゃーど ぼーしゃい りー Winner

Richard Borshay Lee’s anthropological study depicts the !Kung San hunter-gatherer society through long-term fieldwork. Moving between historical perspective and close observation, it shows the relation between ecology and social organization.

Long-term fieldwork reveals the social world of the !Kung San.

560 pages
anthropologyethnographyhunter-gathererssouthern Africasocial organization
Urie Bronfenbrenner ゆりー ぶろんふぇんぶれなー Winner

Urie Bronfenbrenner’s developmental psychology book treats human development as a pattern shaped not only by the individual but also by family, school, community, and culture. Through ecological systems theory, it shows the layered environments that support growth.

A layered system of environments that shape human development.

352 pages
developmental psychologyecological systems theoryfamilyeducationsocial environment