Readings for a History of Anthroppological Theory

by Erickson, Paul A.; Murphy, Liam Donat

• ISBN13: 9781551114118
• ISBN10: 1551114119
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introducing Anthropological History and Theory	xi
PART ONE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY FOUNDATIONS AND FORERUNNERS
Introduction	3	(12)
Bourgeois and Proletarians	15	(11)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
The Science of Culture	26	(17)
Edward Burnett Tylor
Ethnical Periods	43	(13)
Lewis Henry Morgan
The Organic Analogy Reconsidered	56	(7)
Herbert Spencer
General Summary and Conclusion [The Descent of Man]	63	(13)
Charles Darwin
Introduction [The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life]	76	(19)
Emile Durkheim
[Part] III [Civilization and its Discontents]	95	(26)
Sigmund Freud
PART TWO: THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: ANTHROPOLOGY COMES OF AGE
Introduction	109	(12)
The Methods of Ethnology	121	(9)
Franz Boas
Conclusion [Primitive Society]	130	(11)
Robert Lowie
What Anthropology is About	141	(14)
Alfred Louis Kroeber
Introduction [Coming of Age in Samoa]	155	(8)
Margaret Mead
The Individual and the Pattern of Culture	163	(18)
Ruth Benedict
The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society	181	(16)
Edward Sapir
Social Structure	197	(9)
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
The Subject, Method and Scope of This Inquiry [Argonauts of the Western Pacific]	206	(22)
Bronislaw Malinowski
Introduction [African Political Systems]	228	(19)
Meyer Fortes
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
The Sociology of Charismatic Authority	247	(24)
Max Weber
PART THREE: ANTHROPOLOGY AT MIDLIFE
Introduction	257	(14)
The Utility of the Equilibrium Model in the Study of Social Change	271	(31)
Max Gluckman
The Scope of Anthropology	302	(11)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Structuralism in Social Anthropology	313	(19)
Edmund Leach
Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture	332	(25)
Clifford Geertz
Symbols in Ndembu Ritual	357	(26)
Victor Turner
Energy and Tools	383	(25)
Leslie A. White
The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism	408	(33)
Marvin Harris
PART FOUR: TOWARD 2000 AND BEYOND
Introduction	427	(14)
Introduction and Critique of the Vulgar Sociobiology [The Use and Abuse of Biology]	441	(13)
Marshall Sahlins
Mead's Misconstruing of Samoa	454	(12)
Derek Freeman
Introduction [Europe and the People Without History]	466	(24)
Eric R. Wolf
History as Commodity in Some Recent American (Anthropological) Literature	490	(17)
Machael Taussig
Reply to Michael Taussig	507	(7)
Sidney W. Mintz
Eric R. Wolf
Truth and Power	514	(19)
Michel Foucault
Structures, Habitus, and Practices	533	(10)
Pierre Bourdieu
Self-Interest and the Social Good: Some Implications of Hagen Gender Imagery	543	(30)
Marilyn Strathern
Cultural Roots	573	(25)
Benedict Anderson
Introduction: Partial Truths [Writing Culture]	598	(33)
James Clifford
A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences	631	(11)
George E. Marcus
Michael M. J. Fischer
Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties	642	(47)
Sherry B. Ortner
Conclusion: Making Anthropological Histories	689	(8)
Glossary	697	(14)
Acknowledgements	711