Erickson, Paul A. (Editor)
Murphy, Liam Donat (Editor)
Description Readings include: Section One: Nineteenth-Century Foundations and Forerunners. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: “Bourgeois and Proletarians,” from The Communist Manifesto. Edward Burnett Tylor: “The Science of Culture,” from Primitive Culture. Lewis Henry Morgan: “Ethnical Periods,” from Ancient Society. Herbert Spencer: “Organic Analogy Reconsidered,” from On Social Evolution. Charles Darwin: “General Summary and Conclusion,” from The Descent of Man. Émile Durkheim: “Introduction,” from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Sigmund Freud: “Section III,” from Civilization and Its Discontents. Section Two: The Early Twentieth Century: Anthropology Comes of Age. Franz Boas: “The Methods of Ethnology,” from Race, Language and Culture. Robert Lowie: “Conclusion,” from Primitive Society. Alfred Louis Kroeber: “What Anthropology Is About,” from Anthropology. Margaret Mead: “Introduction,”" from Coming of Age in Samoa. Ruth Benedict: “The Individual and the Pattern of Culture,” from Patterns of Culture. Edward Sapir: “The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society,” from Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality. Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown: “Social Structure,” from Method in Social Anthropology. Bronislaw Malinowski: “Introduction,” from Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Meyer Fortes; E. E. Evans-Pritchard: “Introduction,” from African Political Systems. Max Weber: “The Sociology of Charismatic Authority,” from Domestic Economy and Society. Section Three: Anthropology at MidLife (c.1950-1980). Max Gluckman: “The Utility of the Equilibrium Model in the Study of Social Change,” from American Anthropologist. Claude Lévi-Strauss: “The Scope of Anthropology [abridged]”. Edmund Leach: “Structuralism in Social Anthropology,” from Structuralism, D. Robey, ed. Clifford Geertz: “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture,” from The Interpretation of Cultures. Victor Turner: “Symbols in Ndembu Ritual,” from The Forest of Symbols. Marvin Harris: “The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism,” from Cultural Materialism. Leslie White: “Energy and Tools,” from The Evolution of Culture. Section Four: The Late Twentieth Century and Beyond Discussion. Section Four: Fin-de-Siecle (c.1980-c.2000). Marshall Sahlins: “Introduction” and “Critique of the Vulgar Sociobiology,” from The Use and Abuse of Biology. Derek Freeman: “Mead's Misconstruing of Samoa,” from Margaret Mead and Samoa. Eric R. Wolf: “Introduction,” from Europe and the People Without History. Michael Taussig: “History as Commodity in Some Recent American (Anthropological) Literature,” from Critique of Anthropology. Sidney W. Mintz; Eric R. Wolf: “Reply to Michael Taussig,” from Critique of Anthropology. Michel Foucault: “Truth and Power,”" from The Foucault Reader. Pierre Bourdieu: “Structures, Habitus and Practices,” from Outline of a Theory of Practice. Marilyn Strathern: “Self-Image and the Social Good: Some Implications of Hagen Gender Imaging,” from Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality. Benedict Anderson: “Cultural Roots,”" from Imagined Communities. James Clifford: “Introduction: Partial Truths,” from Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. George E. Marcus; Michael M. J. Fischer: “A Crisis in Representation in the Human Sciences,” from Anthropology as Cultural Critique. Sherry B. Ortner: “Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties,” from Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Theory.
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Darnell, Regna;
(2001)
Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology
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Banks, Marcus;
Ruby, Jay;
(2011)
Made to Be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology
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Axel, Brian Keith;
(2009)
Forests of Citation: Concluding Unauthorized Postscript to Figured Fragments of Bernard S. Cohn's “History and Anthropology: The State of Play”
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Nock, David A.;
(2007)
Stephen Leacock: The Not-So-Funny Story of His Evolutionary Ethnology and Canada's First Peoples
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Adam Fulton Johnson;
(2019)
Documenting the multisensory and ephemeral: Navajo Chantway singers and the troubles of a “science” of ceremonialism
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Kronfeldner, Maria E.;
(2009)
“If there is nothing beyond the organic...” Heredity and Culture at the Boundaries of Anthropology in the Work of Alfred L. Kroeber
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Pezzati, Alessandro;
(2002)
Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Cole, Sally Cooper;
(2003)
Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology
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Bruckner, Sierra A.;
(2003)
Spectacles of (Human) Nature: Commercial Ethnography between Leisure, Learning, and Schaulust
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Shankman, Paul;
(2006)
Virginity and Veracity: Rereading Historical Sources in the Mead-Freeman Controversy
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Frederic W. Gleach;
Regna Darnell;
(2016)
Local Knowledge, Global Stage
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Fisher, James;
(2002)
Introduction
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Fardon, Richard;
(1999)
Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography
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O'Hanlon, Michael;
Welsch, Robert Louis;
(2000)
Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s
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Bickham, Troy;
(2005)
“A Conviction of the Reality of Things”: Material Culture, North American Indians and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Charles King;
(2020)
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
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Knight, Nathaniel;
(2008)
Nikolai Kharuzin and the Quest for a Universal Human Science: Anthropological Evolutionism and the Russian Ethnographic Tradition, 1885--1900
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Bruce Kapferer;
(2014)
A Note on Gluckman’s 1930s Fieldwork in Natal
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Thesis
Hoffman, Joann L.;
(2008)
A. C. Haddon's Original Vision: An Ethnography of Resistance in a Colonial Archive
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Buschmann, Rainer F.;
(2009)
Anthropology's Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870--1935
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