A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition

Paul A. Erickson, Liam Murphy (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2013 | 4th New edition
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-0659-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In the latest edition of their popular overview text, Erickson and Murphy continue to provide a comprehensive, affordable, and accessible introduction to anthropological theory from antiquity to the present. A new section on twenty-first-century anthropological theory has been added, with more coverage given to postcolonialism, non-Western anthropology, and public anthropology. The book has also been redesigned to be more visually and pedagogically engaging. Used on its own, or paired with the companion volume Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition, this reader offers a flexible and highly useful resource for the undergraduate anthropology classroom.

For additional resources, visit the "Teaching Theory" page at www.utpteachingculture.com.

Autor

Paul A. Erickson is a past professor in the Department of Anthropology at Saint Mary’s University. Liam D. Murphy is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Preface
Timeline

Introduction

Part One: The Early History of Anthropological Theory


Anthropology in Antiquity
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Voyages of Geographical Discovery

The Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
The Rise of Positivism
Marxism
Classical Cultural Evolutionism

Evolutionism v. Diffusionism
Archaeology Comes of Age
Charles Darwin and Darwinism
Sigmund Freud
Émile Durkheim
Max Weber
Ferdinand de Saussure


Part Two: The Earlier Twentieth Century

American Cultural Anthropology
Franz Boas
Robert Lowie and Alfred Louis Kroeber

Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict
The Development of Psychological Anthropology

French Structural Anthropology
Marcel Mauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Edmund Leach and Mary Douglas

The Legacy of French Structural Anthropology

British Social Anthropology
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
Bronislaw Malinowski
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Max Gluckman and the "Manchester School"

The Legacy of British Social Anthropology

Part Three: The Later Twentieth Century


Cognitive Anthropology

Edward Sapir
Ethnoscience and the "New Ethnography"

Cultural Neo-Evolutionism
Leslie White
Julian Steward
Marshall Sahlins and Elman Service

The New Archaeology
Cultural Materialism
Marvin Harris
Biologized Anthropology

Biology of Behaviour
The New Physical Anthropology

Ethology and Behavioural Genetics
Sociobiology
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
Victor Turner and Symbolic Anthropology
Clifford Geertz and Interpretive Anthropology
Post-processual Archaeology
The Influence of Symbolic and Interpretive Approaches

Transactionalism
Frederik Barth
Feminism and Anthropology
Postcolonial Theory
Political Economy
Marx and the World System

Sins of the Fathers
Ideology, Culture, and Power
Postmodernity
Paul Feyerabend
Michel Foucault
Pierre Bourdieu
Anthropology as Text

Medical Anthropology

Part Four: The Early Twenty-first Century

Globalization

Public Anthropology
Alternative National Traditions in Anthropology

Conclusion

Review Questions
Glossary
Sources and Suggested Reading
Illustrated Sources
Index

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 190 x 236 mm
• Gewicht: 500 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 1-4426-0659-2 / 1442606592
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-0659-3 / 9781442606593
• Zustand: Neuware