A History of AnthropologyThis is the first book to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring major figures such as Morgan and Tylor, it goes on to provide a comprehensive overview of the discipline in the twentieth century.The bulk of the book is devoted to themes and controversies characteristic of post First World War anthropology, from structural functionalism via structuralism to hermeneutics, cultural ecology, discourse analysis and, most recently, globalization and postmodernism. The authors emphasise throughout the need to see changes in the discipline in a wider social, political and intellectual context. This is a timely, concise history of a major discipline, in an engaging and thought-provoking narrative, that will appeal to students of anthropology worldwide. |
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Page 113
... Marxist anthropologies . There were several distinctive strands of Marxist anthropology . One , which we could label cultural Marxism or superstructure studies , arrived so late on the scene that it was already post - Marxist by the ...
... Marxist anthropologies . There were several distinctive strands of Marxist anthropology . One , which we could label cultural Marxism or superstructure studies , arrived so late on the scene that it was already post - Marxist by the ...
Page 115
... Marxist anthropologists simply would not believe it ; it con- tradicted everything they had ever learned . In British anthropology , politics or kinship were assumed to be fundamental , in American anthropology , symbolic systems were ...
... Marxist anthropologists simply would not believe it ; it con- tradicted everything they had ever learned . In British anthropology , politics or kinship were assumed to be fundamental , in American anthropology , symbolic systems were ...
Page 117
... Marxist anthropologists were most often politically active , within or outside the French Communist Party , this was rarely the case with the American Marxist or Marxist - influenced anthropologists of the 1960s and 1970s . In spite of ...
... Marxist anthropologists were most often politically active , within or outside the French Communist Party , this was rarely the case with the American Marxist or Marxist - influenced anthropologists of the 1960s and 1970s . In spite of ...
Contents
Victorians Germans and a Frenchman | 16 |
Four Founding Fathers | 36 |
Expansion and Institutionalisation | 54 |
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