(P/B) READINGS FOR A HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY

Παρουσίαση

Throughout the book, editors Paul A. Erickson and Liam D. Murphy ask, "What unifies a discipline of such theoretical and methodological diversity?" Emphasizing cultural anthropology, the book is divided into four parts, each of which examines transformations that characterized a particular period in anthropological thought. Part One features writings by nineteenth-century intellectual forerunners and founders of anthropology, many of whom were concerned with understanding the evolution of human society and culture through different phases of progress from "primitive" through "civilized." Part Two looks at the increasing complexity of anthropological thought, as an early twentieth-century generation of professional anthropologists in North America and Europe began to innovate and bring new theoretical insights and research methods to their work. The essays in Part Three focus on the ever-deepening search for new empirical knowledge about primarily non-Western societies and on the growing diversity of approaches in the discipline. Part Four looks at the latter-day crisis of faith in the soundness of anthropological knowledge and at the strategies that theorists have proposed to overcome a bias that many anthropologists now believe inheres in Western colonialism and global capitalism. By way of framing the readings, Erickson and Murphy contribute an introduction and conclusion, in addition to discussions of each of the four parts. A glossary of unfamiliar terms, study questions, and suggestions for further reading are also included. (from the publisher)

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Preface
Introducing Anthropological History and Theory
PART ONE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY FOUNDATIONS AND FORERUNNERS
Introduction
1. Bourgeois and Proletarians
KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS
2. The Science of Culture
EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR
3. Ethnical Periods
LEWIS HENRY MORGAN
4. The Organic Analogy Reconsidered
HERBERT SPENCER
5. General Summary and Conclusion [The Descent of Man]
CHARLES DARWIN
6. Introduction [The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life]
EMILE DURKHEIM
7. [Part] III [Civilization and its Discontents]
SIGMUND FREUD
PART TWO: THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: ANTHROPOLOGY COMES OF AGE
Introduction
8. The Methods of Ethnology
FRANZ BOAS
9. Conclusion [Primitive Society]
ROBERT LOWIE
10. What Anthropology Is About
ALFRED LOUIS KROEBER
11. Introduction [Coming of Age in Samoa]
MARGARET MEAD
12. The Individual and the Pattern of Culture
RUTH BENEDICT
13. The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society
EDWARD SAPIR
14. Social Structure
ALFRED REGINALD RADCLIFFE-BROWN
15. The Subject, Method and Scope of This Inquiry [Argonauts of the Western Pacific]
BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
16. Introduction [African Political Systems]
MEYER FORTES AND EDWARD EVAN EVANS-PRITCHARD
17. The Sociology of Charismatic Authority
MAX WEBER
PART THREE: ANTHROPOLOGY AT MIDLIFE
Introduction
18. The Utility of the Equilibrium Model in the Study of Social Change
MAX GLUCKMAN
19. The Scope of Anthropology
CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS
20. Structuralism in Social Anthropology
EDMUND LEACH
21. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
CLIFFORD GEERTZ
22. Symbols in Ndembu Ritual
VICTOR TURNER
23. Energy and Tools
LESLIE A. WHITE
24. The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism
MARVIN HARRIS
PART FOUR: TOWARD 2000 AND BEYOND
Introduction
25. Introduction and Critique of the Vulgar Sociobiology [The Use and Abuse of Biology]
MARSHALL SAHLINS
26. Mead's Misconstruing of Samoa
DEREK FREEMAN
27. Introduction [Europe and the People Without History]
ERIC R. WOLF
28. History as Commodity in Some Recent American (Anthropological) Literature
MICHAEL TAUSSIG
29. Reply to Michael Taussig
SIDNEY W. MINTZ AND ERIC R. WOLF
30. Truth and Power
MICHEL FOUCAULT
31. Structures, Habitus, and Practices
PIERRE BOURDIEU
32. Self-interest and the Social Good: Some Implications of Hagen Gender Imagery
MARILYN STRATHERN
33. Cultural Roots
BENEDICT ANDERSON
34. Introduction: Partial Truths [Writing Culture]
JAMES CLIFFORD
35. A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences
GEORGE E. MARCUS AND MICHAEL
M. J. FISCHER
36. Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties
SHERRY B. ORTNER
Conclusion: Making Anthropological Histories
Glossary
Acknowledgements