Anthropological theory : an introductory history
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Anthropological theory : an introductory history
Rowman & Littlefield, c2017
6th ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. R1-R20) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The sixth edition of this market-leading introduction to anthropological theory offers 43 seminal essays from 1860 through the present day, including six new essays from Kroeber, Benedict, Spradley, Wardlow, Ortner, and Gomberg-Munoz. Accessible introductions and commentary provide necessary background information and historical context of each article. This edition also features a new timeline and recommended additional readings.
Presenting a selection of critical essays in anthropology from 1860 to the current day, this sixth edition of Anthropological Theory includes classic authors such as Tylor, Marx, Boas, Malinowski, Foucault, Turner, and Geertz as well as contemporary thinkers such as Appadurai, Abu-Lughod, and Bourgois. Most essays are reprinted without abridgement. Those that are shortened include notes explaining how much and what was removed.
What sets McGee and Warms' text apart from other readers are its introductions, footnotes, and index. Detailed introductions examine critical developments in theory, introduce key people and discuss historical and personal influences on theorists. In extensive footnotes the editors provide commentary that puts the writing in historical and cultural context, defines unusual terms, translates non-English phrases, identifies references to other scholars and their works, and offers paraphrases and summaries of complex passages. The notes identify and provide background information on hundreds of scholars and concepts important in the development of anthropology. This makes the essays more accessible to both students and current day scholars. An extensive index makes this book an invaluable reference tool.
Table of Contents
* indicates new to the sixth edition
Part I: Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory
Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism
1. Herbert Spencer: The Social Organism (1860)
2. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor: The Science of Culture (1871)
3. Lewis Henry Morgan: Ethnical Periods (1877)
4. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook (1846)
The Foundations of Sociological Thought
5. Emile Durkheim: What Is a Social Fact? (1895)
6. Marcel Mauss: Excerpts from The Gift (1925)
7. Max Weber: Class, Status, Party (1922)
Part II: Culture Theory in the Early Twentieth Century
The Boasians
8. Franz Boas: The Methods of Ethnology (1920)
*9. A. L. Kroeber: On the Principle of Order in Civilization as Exemplified by Changes of Fashion
(1919)
*10. Ruth Benedict: The Science Of Custom: The Bearing of Anthropology on Contemporary Thought (1929)
11. Margaret Mead: Introduction to Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)
12. Benjamin L. Whorf: The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language (1941)
Functionalism
13. Bronislaw Malinowski: The Essentials of the Kula (1922)
14. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown: On Joking Relationships (1940)
15. Max Gluckman: The Licence in Ritual (1956)
Part III: Theory At Mid-Century
The Reemergence of Evolutionary Thought
16. Leslie White: Energy and the Evolution of Culture (1943)
17. Julian Steward: The Patrilineal Band (1955)
18. Morton H. Fried: On the Evolution of Social Stratification and the State (1960)
Neomaterialism
19. Marvin Harris: The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle (1966)
20. Eric Wolf: Peasantry and Its Problems (1966)
Structure, Language, and Cognition
21. Claude Levi-Strauss: Four Winnebago Myths: A Structural Sketch (1960)
22. Harold C. Conklin: Hanunoo Color Categories (1955)
*23. Eugene Hunn: The Tenejapa Tzeltal Version of the Animal Kingdom (1975)
Part IV: Late Twentieth Century Developments
Sociobiology and Behavioral Ecology
24. Edward O. Wilson: The Morality of the Gene (1975)
25. Rebecca Bliege Bird, Eric Alden Smith, and Douglas W. Bird: The Hunting Handicap: Costly Signaling in Human Foraging Strategies (2001)
Feminist Anthropology
26. Sally Slocum: Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology (1975)
27. Eleanor Leacock: Interpreting the Origins of Gender Inequality: Conceptual and Historical Problems (1983)
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
28. Mary Douglas: External Boundaries (1966)
29. Victor Turner: Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (1967)
30. Clifford Geertz: Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (1972)
Background to Postmodernism
31. Pierre Bourdieu: Structures, Habitus, Practices (1980)
32. Michel Foucault: The Incitement to Discourse (1976)
Postmodernism
33. Renato Rosaldo: Grief and a Headhunters Rage (1989)
34. Allan Hanson: The Making of the Maori: Cultural Invention and Its Logic (1989)
Part V: Trends in Contemporary Anthropology
Gender
35. Lila Abu-Lughod: A Tale of Two Pregnancies (1995)
36. David Valentine: 'I Went to Bed with My Own Kind Once': The Erasure of Desire in the Name of Identity (2003)
*37. HollyWardlow: Anger, Economy, and Female Agency: Problematizing "Prostitution" and "Sex Work" among the Huli of Papua New Guinea (2004)
Globalization
38. Arjun Appadurai: Disjuncture and the Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990)
39. Theodore Bestor: Kaiten-Zushi and Konbini: Japanese Food Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2006)
*40. Jonathan Friedman and Kajsa Ekholm Friedman: Globalization as a Discourse of Hegemonic Crisis: A Global Systemic Analysis (2013)
Agency and Structure
41. Philippe Bourgois: From Jibaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the Restructuring of Capitalism in El Barrio (1995)
*42. Sherry Ortner: Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency (2006)
*43. Ruth Gomberg Mun oz: Willing to Work: Agency and Vulnerability in an Undocumented Immigrant Network (2010)
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