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Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory (2001)

Erickson, Paul A. (Editor)
Murphy, Liam Donat (Editor)

Broadview Press
Publication date: 2001
Language: English

Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xx ii + 714 pp., bibl., glossary, index

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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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