A History of Anthropological Theory

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