A History of AnthropologyThis is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of "Enlightenment", "Romantic" and "Victorian" anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions of German scholars. The ambiguous relationship between anthropology and national cultures is also considered. The book provides an unparalleled account of theoretical developments in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, including functionalism, structuralism, hermeneutics, neo-Marxism and discourse analysis. There are brief biographies of major anthropologists and coverage of key debates including totemism, kinship and globalization. This essential text on anthropology is highly engaging, authoritative and suitable for students at all levels. |
Contents
Herodotus and other Greeks 1 After Antiquity | 3 |
The European conquests and their impact 6 Why all this is | 15 |
Evolutionism and cultural history 21 Morgan 23 Marx | 25 |
Bastian and the German tradition 27 Tylor and other | 32 |
German diffusionism 35 The new sociology 38 Durkheim | 39 |
Four Founding Fathers | 46 |
The founding fathers and their projects 49 Malinowski among | 64 |
A marginal discipline? 69 Oxford and the LSE Columbia | 82 |
Neoevolutionism and cultural ecology 99 Formalism | 117 |
From function to meaning 121 Ethnoscience and symbolic | 135 |
Questioning Authority | 138 |
Feminism and the birth of reflexive fieldwork 151 Ethnicity 155 | 155 |
The end of modernism? 171 The postcolonial world 176 | 176 |
Global Networks | 192 |
Towards an international anthropology? 194 Trends for | 211 |
Index | 239 |
The Chicago school 83 Kinshipology 86 Functionalisms | 92 |
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