A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition
4th Edition
Published on 26. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
277 pages
978-1-4426-0659-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
For additional resources, visit the "Teaching Theory" page at www.utpteachingculture.com.
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Edition
4th New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-0659-3 (9781442606593)
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Persons
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.
Liam D. Murphy is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento.
Content
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
Emile 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 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
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
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
Emile 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 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
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