Anthropology in Theory : Issues in Epistemology

by Moore, Henrietta L.; Sanders, Todd

• ISBN13: 9780631229155
• ISBN10: 0631229159
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The 57 articles collected in this volume---together with the editors' introduction---provide an overview of the key debates in anthropological theory over the past century. Provides the most comprehensive selection of readings and insightful overview of anthropological theory available Identifies crucial conceptual signposts and new theoretical directions for the discipline Discusses broader debates in the social sciences: debates about society and culture; structure and agency; identities and technologies; subjectivities and translocality; and meta-theory, ontology and epistemology

Author Biography

Henrietta L. Moore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her publications include: Space, Text and Gender (Cambridge, 1986; Guilford, 1996), Feminism and Anthropology (Polity, 1988), A Passion for Difference (Polity, 1994), Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990 (with Megan Vaughan; James Currey, 1994), The Future of Anthropological Knowledge (1996), Anthropological Theory Today (Polity, 1999), Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa (with Todd Sanders and B. Kaare, 1999), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa (with Todd Sanders, 2001), and The Subject of Anthropology: Essays on Lacan and Lévi-Strauss (Polity, 2005).

Todd Sanders is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His publications include: Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa (with H. L. Moore and B. Kaare, 1999), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa (with H. L. Moore, 2001), and Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order (with Harry West, 2003).

Table of Contents

Notes on the Editors	x
General Introduction	xi
Henrietta L. Moore
Todd Sanders
Acknowledgments	xvii
Anthropology and Epistemology	1	(22)
Henrietta L. Moore
Todd Sanders
PART I	23	(210)
Culture and Behavior	25	(32)
The Aims of Anthropological Research	26	(10)
Franz Boas
The Concept of Culture in Science	36	(5)
A. L. Kroeber
Problems and Methods of Approach	41	(6)
Gregory Bateson
Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts	47	(10)
Emile Durkheim
Society and Social Patterns	57	(30)
The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology	58	(10)
Franz Boas
Anthropology and Sociology	68	(9)
Edward Sapir
The Individual and the Pattern of Culture	77	(10)
Ruth Benedict
Function and Environment	87	(34)
The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis	88	(12)
Bronislaw Malinowski
The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology	100	(7)
Julian H. Steward
Energy and the Evolution of Culture	107	(14)
Leslie A. White
Structure and System	121	(26)
On Social Structure	122	(6)
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
Introduction to Political Systems of Highland Burma	128	(8)
E. R. Leach
Social Structure	136	(11)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Methods and Objects	147	(32)
Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology	148	(11)
J. H. M. Beattie
Anthropological Data and Social Reality	159	(10)
Ladislav Holy
Milan Stuchlik
Objectification Objectified	169	(10)
Pierre Bourdieu
Biology and Ontogeny	179	(54)
Becoming Persons: Consciousness and Sociality in Human Evolution	180	(13)
Tim Ingold
Customs and Cultures in Animals and Humans: Neurobiological and Evolutionary Considerations	193	(11)
Kathleen R. Gibson
Introduction to Mind, Materiality and History	204	(16)
Christina Toren
The Development of Meaning: Ontogeny and Culture	220	(13)
A. F. Robertson
PART II	233	(124)
Meanings as Objects of Study	235	(32)
Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture	236	(8)
Clifford Geertz
Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology	244	(14)
Talal Asad
Anthropology as Interpretive Quest	258	(9)
Roger M. Keesing
Language and Method	267	(32)
Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology	268	(13)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Ordinary Language and Human Action	281	(7)
Malcolm Crick
Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science	288	(11)
Maurice Bloch
Thinking and Believing	299	(22)
Introduction to Belief, Language, and Experience	300	(5)
Rodney Needham
The Antinomies	305	(6)
Stephen A. Tyler
Anthropology and Psychology: Towards an Epidemiology of Representations	311	(10)
Dan Sperber
Bodies of Knowledges	321	(36)
Knowledge of the Body	322	(14)
Michael Jackson
The End of the Body?	336	(16)
Emily Martin
The Body of the Condemned	352	(5)
Michel Foucault
PART III	357	(180)
Coherence and Contingency	359	(64)
Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism	360	(7)
Max Weber
Introduction to Europe and the People without History	367	(15)
Eric R. Wolf
Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution	382	(15)
Jean Comaroff
John Comaroff
Epochal Structures I: Reconstructing Historical Materialism	397	(10)
Donald L. Donham
Structures and the Habitus	407	(10)
Pierre Bourdieu
Two Lectures	417	(6)
Michel Foucault
Universalisms and Domain Terms	423	(34)
Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body: Some Anthropological Interventions in a Long Conversation	424	(13)
Michael Lambek
So Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?	437	(6)
Sherry B. Ortner
Global Anxieties: Concept-metaphors and Pre-theoretical Commitments in Anthropology	443	(14)
Henrietta L. Moore
Perspectives and their Logics	457	(36)
The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism	458	(8)
Robert J. Thornton
Writing Against Culture	466	(14)
Lila Abu-Lughod
Cutting the Network	480	(13)
Marilyn Strathern
Objectivity, Morality, and Truth	493	(44)
The ``Objectivity'' of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy	494	(12)
Max Weber
The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology	506	(7)
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Moral Models in Anthropology	513	(10)
Roy D'Andrade
Postmodernist Anthropology, Subjectivity, and Science: A Modernist Critique	523	(14)
Melford E. Spiro
PART IV	537	(97)
The Anthropology of Western Modes of Thought	539	(28)
The Invention of Women	540	(6)
Oyeronke Oyewumi
Valorizing the Present: Orientalism, Postcoloniality and the Human Sciences	546	(6)
Vivek Dhareshwar
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism	552	(15)
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
(Re)defining Objects of Enquiry	567	(40)
Culture, Genuine and Spurious: The Politics of Indianness in the Vaupes, Colombia	568	(19)
Jean E. Jackson
The Near and the Elsewhere	587	(11)
Marc Auge
Relativism	598	(9)
Bruno Latour
Imagining Methodologies and Meta-things	607	(27)
Beyond ``Culture'': Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference	608	(10)
Akhil Gupta
James Ferguson
What is at Stake -- and is not -- in the Idea and Practice of Multi-sited Ethnography	618	(4)
George E. Marcus
Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination	622	(12)
Arjun Appadurai
Index	634