Press. Spiro, Melford E.(1967) Burmese Supernaturalism:A Study in the Explanation and Resolution of Suffering. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:Prentice Hall. Spiro, Melford E. (1971) Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes. New York: Harper and Row. Spiro, Melford E. (1977) Kinship and Marriage in Burma:A Cultural and Psychodynamic Analysis. Los Angeles:University of California Press. Spiro, Melford E. (1979) Gender and Culture:Kibbutz Women Revisited. Durham, N.C.:Duke University Press. Spiro, Melford E. (1982) Oedipus in the Trobriands. Chicago:University of Chicago Press. Spiro, Melford E. (1987) Culture and Human Nature: Theoretical Papers of Melford E.Spiro. Benjamin Kilborne and L.L. Langness, eds.Chicago:University of Chicago Press. Spiro, Melford E. (1992) Anthropological Other or Burmese Brother? Studies in Cultural Analysis. New Brunswick (USA): Transaction Publishers. Spiro, Melford E. (1997) Gender Ideology and Psychological Reality:An Essay on Cultural Reproduction. New Haven:Yale University Press. 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 R. A. Shweder and R. A. LeVine. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 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 L. L. 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. Kilborne, Benjamin, and L.L. Langness, eds. (1987 Culture and human nature: Theoretical papers of Melford E. Spiro. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. References Further reading Darnell, Regna (2006) "Keeping the Faith: A Legacy of Native American Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Psychology". In: New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations, ed. by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, pp. 3–16. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Kilborne, Benjamin, and L.L. Langness, eds. (1987) Culture and human nature: Theoretical papers of Melford E. Spiro. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Melford Spiro's obituary External links Kevin Avruch, "Melford E. Spiro", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) 1920 births 2014 deaths American anthropologists University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni Northwestern University alumni University of California, San Diego faculty Psychological anthropologists Anthropologists of religion Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Critics of postmodernism Washington University in St.