Small-Group Cultures examines the issues that stems from the concepts of society and culture. The title provides an in-depth analysis of small-group association with culture.
The text first provides a comparative study between experimental and natural small-groups. Next, the selection tackles the natural small-group culture. The next chapter deals with the experimental small-group cultures. The fourth chapter examines small-groups and small-group cultures from both experimental and ethnographic perspectives. In the last chapter, the text talks about indoor-outdoor anthropology.
The book will be of great interest to sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Experimental and Natural Small-Groups
Prototypes
Primary Groups
Groupings
Principles of Grouping
Summary
Experimental Small-Group Prototypes
Network Prototypes
Crossing the River Ems
The Nootka Whaling Crew
Networks and Groups
Group Prototypes
Un-equilibrium
Numbers and Participation
Size and Isolation of Subarctic Hunting Groups
General Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 2 Natural Small-Group Cultures
Prototype: Content-Ordered Group-Cultures
Culture, Cultures and Households
Prototype: Task-Ordering Group-Cultures
Winoque Content and Task-Ordering Group-Cultures
Post-Contact Task Definitions
Domestic and Industrial Containers
Maliseet as Small-Groups and Networks
Task-Ordering in Maliseet Small-Group Cultures
Summary
Prototype: Group-Ordering
Channels and Media
Models and Media
The Story of Asdiwal
The Medium of Myth
Myth and Game Media
Ritual Models and Group Media
Communication as the Transformation of Energy
Boundary
Regions and Boundaries
Dimensions of Small-Group Cultures
Space
Numbers
Structure
Communication
Information
Ambivalences
Medium
The Evolution of Southwestern Group-Cultures
The Proxemics of Prehistoric Development
The Last of the Basket Makers
Internal Boundaries
The Early Puebloans
The Nuclear Puebloans
Local Kivas
The Synthesis
Conclusions
Chapter 3 Experimental Small-Group Cultures
The Separation of Group and Information
Instant Group-Cultures
An Early Experimental Group-Culture
Task Definitions
Transmissibility
Information and Task
The Nineteen-Sixty-Six Group
The Range of Redundancy
The Nineteen-Seventy Group
The Nineteen-Sixty-Seven Group-Cultures
The Role of Content
The Structure of Information
The Specific Content of Information
Buster's Group
Cranshaw's Group
Lin's Group
Chapter 4 The World of Small-Group Cultures
Content - Ordering
Personal and Group Memory
Task-Ordering
Structure and Comparison
Leadership
Group - Ordering
Growth
Variants
Models
Chapter 5 Indoor-Outdoor Anthropology
Experimental Innovation and Diffusion
Toy Cultures and Real Cultures
Mead's View of Evolution
The Self-Management of Group-Cultures
The Evolution of Group-Cultures
The Population
Basic and Interpreted Information
Innovated Information
Indoors and Outdoors
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index