This comprehensive anthology presents 34 readings that are critical to an understanding of anthropological theory and the development of anthropology as an academic discipline. The readings have broad anthropological appeal, emphasizing cultural anthropology in the North American and European traditions.
Thematic coverage begins with nineteenth-century foundations and forerunners, before moving on to the early and mid-twentieth century when anthropology comes of age. The last section looks at numerous late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century developments in anthropological theory, including feminist anthropology, postmodernity, medical anthropology, and globalization.
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"Erickson and Murphy have managed to encompass the theoretical breadth and ethnographic scope of the anthropological enterprise, and have produced a volume that will be of great pedagogical value. Their own contributions lead the student gracefully through diverse anthropological approaches, perspectives, and arguments—and out the other end into (post-)modernity. A valuable resource!"
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 2nd Edition. xxii, 714 pages ; 23 cm. Contents: Bourgeois and Proletarians / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The science of culture / Edward Burnett Tylor Ethical periods / Lewis Henry Morgan The organic analogy reconsidered / Herbert Spencer General summary and conclusion [The descent of man] / Charles Darwin Introduction [The elementary forms of the religious life] / Émile Durkheim [Part] III [Civilization and its discontents] / Sigmund Freud The methods of ethnology / Franz Boas Conclusion [Primitive society] / Robert Lowie What anthropology is about / Alfred Louis Kroeber Introduction [Coming of age in Samoa] / Margaret Mead The individual and the pattern of culture / Ruth Benedict The unconscious paterning of behavior in society / Edward Sapir Social structure / Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown The subject, method and scope of this inquiry [Argonauts of the western pacific] / Bronislaw Malinowski Introduction [African political systems] / Meyer Fortes and Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard The sociology of charismatic authority / Max Weber The utility of the equilibrium model in the study of social change / Max Gluckman The scope of anthropology / Claude Lévi-Strauss Structuralism in social anthropology / Edmund Leach Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture / Clifford Geertz Symbols in Ndembu ritual / Victor Turner Energy and tools / Leslie A. White The epistemology of cultural materialism / Marvin Harris Introduction and critique of the vulgar sociobiology [The use and abuse of biology] / Marshall Sahlins Mead's misconstructing of Samoa / Derek Freeman Introduction [Europe and the people without history] / Eric R. Wolf History as commodity in some recent American (anthropological) literature / Michael Taussig Reply to Michael Taussig / Sidney W. Mintz and Eric R. Wolf Truth and power / Michel Foucault Structures, habitus, and practices / Pierre Bourdieu Self-interest and the social good: some implications of Hagen gender imagery / Marilyn Strathern Cultural roots / Benedict Anderson Introduction: partial truths [Writing culture] / James Clifford A crisis of representation in the human sciences / George E. Marcus and Michael M.J. Fischer Theory in anthropology since the Sixties / Sherry B. Ortner Conclusions: making anthropological histories. Seller Inventory # mh464
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