High Points In Anthropology

by Bohannan, Paul; Glazer, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780075539773
• ISBN10: 0075539772
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-10-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

A classic collection of essays in the history of anthropological thought, the new edition has been conceptually reorganized and also includes selections by modern theorists-among them Marvin Harris, Victor Turner, and Clifford Geertz.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

PART ONE:

UNILINEAL EVOLUTION, Herbert Spencer.

1. The Evolution of Society, Lewis Henry Morgan.

2. Ancient Society, Edward Burnett Tylor.

3. Primitive Culture.

PART TWO:

EARLY CULTURAL ANTHOROPOLOTY, Franz Boas.

4. The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology.

5. The Methods of Ethnology, Alfred Louis Kroeber.

6. The Concept of Culture in Science, Robert H. Lowie.

7. The Determinants of Culture, Edward Sapir.

8. The Status of Linguistics as a Science, Benjamin Lee Whorf.

9. The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language, Ruth Fulton Benedict.

10. The Integration of Culture, Ralph Linton.

11. Status and Role.

12. Culture and Normality, Abram Kardiner.

13. The Technique of Psychodynamic Analysis.

PART THREE:

STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, AND RECIPROCITY, Emile Durkheim.

14. Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts.

15. Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Marcel Mauss.

16. Gifts and Return Gifts, Bronislaw Malinowski.

17. The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis.

18. On the Concept of Function in Social Science.

19. On Social Structure.

PART FOUR:

CULTURAL ECOLOGY, AND NEOEVOLUTIONARY THEORY, Julian Steward.

20. The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology, Leslie A. White.

21. The Symbol: The Origin and Basis of Human Behavior.

22. Energy and the Evolution of Culture, Marshall D. Sahlins.

23. Evolution: Specific and General, Marvin Harris.

24. Theoretical Principles of Cultural Materialism.

V: Symbols and Structures, E. E. Evans-Pritchard.

25. Social Anthropology: Past and Present, Claude Levi-Strauss.

26. Social Structure.

27. The Story of Asdiwal, Victor Turner.

28. Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas, Clifford Geertz.

29. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture.

Postlude