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 in particular , this should have been a fact of deep significance ... structural Marxism and political economy . It is a testimony both to the ... STRUCTURAL MARXISM One of the first harbingers of the new era was a paper published ...
... Marxist in particular , this should have been a fact of deep significance ... structural Marxism and political economy . It is a testimony both to the ... STRUCTURAL MARXISM One of the first harbingers of the new era was a paper published ...
Page 118
... Marxist insistence on a ' dialectical relationship ' between infrastructure and super- structure as a mystifying and non - scientific device . His opponents , and there were many , would class him variously as a crude materialist ...
... Marxist insistence on a ' dialectical relationship ' between infrastructure and super- structure as a mystifying and non - scientific device . His opponents , and there were many , would class him variously as a crude materialist ...
Page 122
... Marxist theoretical framework ( Melhuus 1993 ) . While French structural Marxism today appears as a dead end , it left a lasting imprint on the profession . It forcefully directed attention to the complex inter- weavings of local and ...
... Marxist theoretical framework ( Melhuus 1993 ) . While French structural Marxism today appears as a dead end , it left a lasting imprint on the profession . It forcefully directed attention to the complex inter- weavings of local and ...
Contents
Victorians Germans and a Frenchman | 16 |
Four Founding Fathers | 36 |
Expansion and Institutionalisation | 54 |
Copyright | |
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