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Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History 4th edition [Paperback / softback]

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  • Pub. Date: 16-May-2007
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
  • ISBN-10: 0073405221
  • ISBN-13: 9780073405223
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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 684 pages, height x width x depth: 229x185x26 mm, weight: 971 g
  • Pub. Date: 16-May-2007
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
  • ISBN-10: 0073405221
  • ISBN-13: 9780073405223
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A comprehensive and accessible survey of the history of theory in anthropology, this anthology of classic and contemporary readings contains in-depth commentary in introductions and notes to help guide students through excerpts of seminal anthropological works. The commentary provides the background information needed to understand each article, its central concepts, and its relationship to the social and historical context in which it was written. Six of the 45 articles are new to this edition.
Preface ix
Introduction 1(4)
Part One HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
5(111)
Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism
5(64)
The Social Organism (1860)
11(17)
Herbert Spencer
The Science of Culture (1871)
28(15)
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
Ethnical Periods (1877)
43(11)
Lewis Henry Morgan
Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook (1845--1846)
54(15)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
The Foundations of Sociological Thought
69(47)
What Is a Social Fact? (1895)
73(7)
Emile Durkheim
The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class (1912)
80(10)
Emile Durkheim
Excerpts from The Gift (1925)
90(13)
Marcel Mauss
Class, Status, Party (1922)
103(13)
Max Weber
Part Two CULTURE THEORY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
116(110)
Historical Particularism
116(43)
The Methods of Ethnology (1920)
121(8)
Franz Boas
Eighteen Professions (1915)
129(6)
A. L. Kroeber
Right and Wrong (1927)
135(6)
Paul Radin
The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language (1939)
141(18)
Benjamin L. Whorf
Functionalism
159(45)
The Essentials of the Kula (1922)
163(16)
Bronislaw Malinowski
On Joking Relationships (1940)
179(11)
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
The Licence in Ritual (1956)
190(14)
Max Gluckman
Culture and Personality
204(22)
Psychological Types in the Cultures of the Southwest (1930)
209(10)
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Introduction to Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935)
219(7)
Margaret Mead
Part Three THEORY AT MIDCENTURY
226(180)
The Reemergence of Evolutionary Thought
226(39)
Energy and the Evolution of Culture (1943)
229(19)
Leslie White
The Patrilineal Band (1955)
248(17)
Julian Steward
Neomaterialism: Evolutionary, Functionalist, Ecological, and Marxist
265(59)
On the Evolution of Social Stratification and the State (1960)
269(13)
Morton H. Fried
The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle (1966)
282(15)
Marvin Harris
Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People (1967)
297(13)
Roy A. Rappaport
Peasantry and Its Problems (1966)
310(14)
Eric Wolf
Structuralism
324(36)
Linguistics and Anthropology (1952)
326(12)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Four Winnebago Myths: A Structural Sketch (1960)
338(8)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? (1974)
346(14)
Sherry B. Ortner
Ethnoscience and Cognitive Anthropology
360(46)
Hanunoo Color Categories (1955)
364(4)
Harold C. Conklin
Introduction to Cognitive Anthropology (1969)
368(16)
Stephen A. Tyler
What Makes Tony Run? Schemas as Motives Reconsidered (1992)
384(22)
Claudia Strauss
Part Four THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND
406
Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavioral Ecology
406(26)
The Morality of the Gene (1975)
409(6)
Edward O. Wilson
The Hunting Handicap: Costly Signaling in Human Foraging Strategies (2001)
415(17)
Rebecca Bliege Bird
Eric Alden Smith
Douglas W. Bird
Anthropology and Gender
432(50)
Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology (1975)
435(9)
Sally Slocum
Interpreting the Origins of Gender Inequality: Conceptual and Historical Problems (1983)
444(15)
Eleanor Leacock
Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Cultures (1989)
459(23)
Ann L. Stoler
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
482(50)
External Boundaries (1966)
484(9)
Mary Douglas
Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (1967)
493(18)
Victor Turner
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (1973)
511(21)
Clifford Geertz
Postmodernism and Its Critics
532(48)
Grief and a Headhunter's Rage (1989)
537(15)
Renato Rosaldo
A Tale of Two Pregnancies (1995)
552(10)
Lila Abu-Lughod
Moral Models in Anthropology (1995)
562(18)
Roy D'Andrade
Globalization, Power, and Agency
580
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990)
582(19)
Arjun Appadurai
From Jibaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the Restructuring of Capitalism in El Barrio (1995)
601(16)
Philippe Bourgois
The Family Romance of Mandarin Capital (1999)
617
Aihwa Ong
Bibliography 1(1)
Credits 1(1)
Index 1


R. Jon McGee is a professor of Anthropology at Southwest Texas State University. He began his work with the Lacandon Maya of Mexico in 1980, and received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1983. McGee is married, has a son and daughter, and has taught at Southwest Texas State since 1985. He is the author of numerous works on the Lacandon including Life, Ritual and Religion Among the Lacandon Maya, and Watching Lacandon Maya Lives. He is also the coauthor of the texts Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History and Many Worlds: Essays in Religious Practices, Beliefs, and Culture. Richard L. Warms is professor of anthropology at Southwest Texas State University. He has done original fieldwork in West Africa, has published numerous scholarly articles and is co-author, with Jon McGee, of Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History and with Serena Nanda of Cultural Anthropology, 7th edition.