The Rise of Anthropological Theory A History of Theories of Culture

by Harris, Marvin

• ISBN13: 9780759101333
• ISBN10: 0759101337
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-14
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

The best known, most often cited history of anthropological theory is finally available in paperback! First published in 1968, Harris's book has been cited in over 1,000 works and is one of the key documents explaining cultural materialism, the theory associated with Harris's work. This updated edition includes the complete 1968 text plus a new introduction by the author, which discusses the impact of the book and highlights some of the major trends in anthropological theory since its original publication. RAT, as it is affectionately known to three decades of graduate students, comprehensively traces the history of anthropology and anthropological theory, culminating in a strong argument for the use of a scientific, behaviorally-based, ethic approach to the understanding of human culture known as cultural materialism

Author Biography

Marvin Harris is graduate research professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Florida

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Updated Edition	vii
Maxine L. Margolis
Acknowledgments	xiv
About the Author	xv
Introduction	1	(7)
Enlightenment	8	(45)
Reaction and Recovery: The Early Nineteenth Century	53	(27)
Rise of Racial Determinism	80	(28)
Spencerism	108	(34)
Evolutionism: Methods	142	(38)
The Evolutionists: Results	180	(37)
Dialectical Materialism	217	(33)
Historical Particularism: Boas	250	(40)
The Boasian Milieu	290	(11)
The Ethnographic Basis of Particularism	301	(18)
Kroeber	319	(24)
Lowie	343	(30)
Diffusionism	373	(20)
Culture and Personality: Pre-Freudian	393	(29)
Culture and Personality: Freudian	422	(27)
Culture and Personality: New Directions	449	(15)
French Structuralism	464	(50)
British Social Anthropology	514	(54)
Emics, Etics, and the New Ethnography	568	(37)
Statistical Survey and the Nomothetic Revival	605	(38)
Cultural Materialism: General Evolution	643	(11)
Cultural Materialism: Cultural Ecology	654	(34)
Bibliography	688	(77)
Index	765