A History of Anthropoligical Theory

by Erickson, Paul A.; Murphy, Liam Donat

• ISBN13: 9781551115269
• ISBN10: 1551115263
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education

Summary

Recognising that anthropology - the integrated study of humanity in its biological, social, and cultural dimensions - has deep roots in the Western experience, this concise survey begins in antiquity, then moves forward through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the modern era.

Author Biography

Liam D. Murphy is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento.

Table of Contents

Preface	11	(6)
Introduction	17	(4)
Part One: The Early History of Anthropological Theory	21	(52)
Anthropology in Antiquity	21	(5)
The Middle Ages	26	(2)
The Renaissance	28	(2)
Voyages of Geographical Discovery	30	(4)
The Scientific Revolution	34	(3)
The Enlightenment	37	(3)
The Rise of Positivism	40	(2)
Marxism	42	(5)
Classical Cultural Evolutionism	47	(7)
Evolutionism vs. Diffusionism	54	(3)
Archaeology Comes of Age	57	(3)
Darwinism	60	(13)
Part Two: The Early Twentieth Century	73	(40)
American Cultural Anthropology	73	(16)
Franz Boas	74	(2)
Robert Lowie and Alfred Louis Kroeber	76	(2)
Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict	78	(5)
The Influence of Sigmund Freud	83	(3)
The Development of Psychological Anthropology	86	(3)
French Structural Anthropology	89	(11)
The Influence of Emile Durkheim	90	(3)
Marcel Mauss	93	(1)
Claude Levi-Strauss	94	(3)
Edmund Leach and Mary Douglas	97	(2)
Structural Marxism	99	(1)
British Social Anthropology	100	(13)
Durkheim in the British Tradition	100	(1)
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown	101	(2)
Bronislaw Malinowski	103	(2)
E.E. Evans-Pritchard	105	(2)
Max Gluckman and the ``Manchester School''	107	(2)
The Legacy of British Social Anthropology	109	(4)
Part Three: The Later Twentieth Century and Beyond	113	(60)
Cognitive Anthropology	115	(2)
Edward Sapir	115	(1)
Ethnoscience and the ``New Ethnography''	116	(1)
Cultural Neo-Evolutionism	117	(6)
Leslie White	118	(1)
Julian Steward	119	(1)
Marshall Sahlins and Elman Service	120	(1)
The New Archaeology	121	(2)
Cultural Materialism	123	(2)
Marvin Harris	123	(2)
Biologized Anthropology	125	(6)
Biology of Behaviour	126	(1)
The New Physical Anthropology	127	(1)
Human Ethology	128	(1)
Behavioural Genetics	128	(1)
Sociobiology	129	(2)
Symbolism and Meaning in Anthropology and Archaeology	131	(12)
The Legacy of Max Weber	132	(3)
Symbols and Meaning	135	(2)
Victor Turner and Symbolic Anthropology	137	(2)
Clifford Geertz and Interpretive Anthropology	139	(2)
Post-processual Archaeology	141	(1)
The Effect of Symbolic and Interpretive Approaches	142	(1)
Transactionalism	143	(2)
Fredrik Barth	144	(1)
Feminist Anthropology	145	(3)
The Anthropology of Women	146	(1)
Sex and Gender	147	(1)
Political Economy	148	(7)
Marx and the World System	148	(2)
Sins of the Fathers	150	(2)
Ideology, Culture, and Power	152	(3)
Postmodernity	155	(18)
Paul Feyerabend	156	(2)
Michel Foucault	158	(3)
Pierre Bourdieu	161	(2)
Anthropology as Text	163	(2)
Medical Anthropology	165	(3)
Globalization	168	(5)
Conclusion	173	(8)
A Postmodern Dilemma	174	(1)
A Field United	175	(3)
History of the Future	178	(2)
Beyond ``One Dead Guy A Week''	180	(1)
Review Questions	181	(10)
Glossary	191	(24)
Suggested Reading	215	(51)
Sources	266	(3)
Index	269