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 vs. Diffusionism Archaeology Comes of Age Charles Darwin and Darwinism Sigmund Freud Emile Durkheim Max Weber Ferdinand de Saussure Speaking About Anthropological Theory: Janice Boddy Part Two: The Early 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 Levi-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 Speaking About Anthropological Theory: Lee D. Baker Part Three: The Later Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries 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 Fredrik Barth Feminism and Anthropology 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 Globalization Public Anthropology Speaking About Anthropological Theory: Lila Abu-Lughod Conclusion Postmodern Predicaments Agreeing to Disagree "-Isms" in Schism History of the Future Beyond "One Dead Guy a Week" Review Questions Glossary Sources and Suggested Reading Illustration Sources Index
A History of Anthropological Theory continues to stand well apart from its peers in both its narrative elegance and broad disciplinary sweep. Essays written by Janice Boddy, Lee Baker, and Lila Abu-Lughod are particularly exciting contributions to this edition, as they offer students rich and highly personal insight into the dynamic interplay between anthropological fieldwork, theory, and analysis. -- Terri Castaneda, California State University, Sacramento The third edition of an already popular book hits the mark once again in several important ways. First, it continues to promote the time-honoured four-field approach to anthropology. This is critical for students' understanding of the interconnected nature of ideas and the human experience. Second, the glossary and review questions are enhanced and are an added bonus. And finally, new life is breathed into theory with the 'stories' of contemporary anthropologists, who bring their uses of anthropological theory to life for the readers. -- Yolanda Moses, University of California, Riverside Erickson and Murphy's uniquely accessible and intelligent text draws students into a 'dialogue with the ancestors.' The coverage is extraordinary (especially when paired with the companion volume of readings) and resituates the history of anthropology as essential to contemporary disciplinary practice. -- Regna Darnell, University of Western Ontario
Paul A. Erickson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax. Liam D. Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento.
"The third edition of an already popular book hits the mark once again. New life is breathed into theory with the 'stories' of contemporary anthropologists, who bring their uses of anthropological theory to life for the readers." - Yolanda Moses, University of California, Riverside
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