Synopses & Reviews
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.
Table of Contents
*Indicates an article new to this edition Preface Introduction Part One: Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory Chapter 1 19th 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 (1845-1846) Chapter 2 The Foundations of Sociological Thought 5. Émile Durkheim, What is a Social Fact? (1895) 6. Marcel Mauss, Extracts from The Gift (1924) 7. Max Weber, Class, Status, Party (1922) Part Two: Culture Theory in the Early Twentieth Century Chapter 3 Historical Particularism 8. Franz Boas, The Methods of Ethnology (1920) 9. A.L. Kroeber, Eighteen Professions (1915) 10. Benjamin L. Whorf, The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language (1939) Chapter 4 Functionalism 11. Bronislaw Malinowski, The Essentials of the Kula (1922) 12. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, On Joking Relationships (1940) 13. Max Gluckman, The Licence in Ritual (1956) Chapter 5 Culture and Personality 14. Ruth Benedict, Psychological Types in the Cultures of the Southwest (1930) *15. Margaret Mead, Introduction to Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) Part Three: Theory at Mid-Century Chapter 6 The Re-emergence of Evolutionary Thought 16. Leslie White, Energy and the Evolution of Culture(1943) 17. Julian Steward, The Patrilineal Band (1955) Chapter 7 Neo-materialism: Evolutionary, Functionalist, and Ecological 18. Morton Fried, On the Evolution of Social Stratification and the State (1960) 19. Marvin Harris, The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle (1966) 20. Roy A. Rappaport, Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People (1967) 21. Eric R. Wolf, Peasantry and its Problems (1966) Chapter 8 Structuralism *22. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Linguistics and Anthropology (1952) 23. Sherry Ortner, Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? (1974) Chapter 9 Ethnoscience and Cognitive Anthropology 24. Harold C. Conklin, Hanunóo Color Categories(1955) 25. Stephen A. Tyler, Introduction to Cognitive Anthropology (1969) Part Four: The Late Twentieth Century and Beyond Chapter 10 Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavioral Ecology 26. Edward O. Wilson, The Morality of the Gene (1975) 27. Rebecca Bliege Bird, Eric Alden Smith, and Douglas W. Bird, The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies (2001) Chapter 11 Anthropology and Gender: The Feminist Critique 28. Sally Slocum, Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology (1975) 29. Eleanor Leacock, Interpreting the Origins of Gender Inequality: Conceptual and Historical Problems (1983) *30. David Valentine, "I went to bed with my own kind once”: The Erasure of Desire in the Name of Identity (2003) Chapter 12 Symbolic/Interpretive Anthropology 31. Mary Douglas, External Boundaries (1966) 32. Victor Turner, Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (1967) 33. Clifford Geertz, Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (1973) *34. Pierre Bourdieu, Structures, Habitus, Practices (1980, eng trans 1990) *35. Michel Foucault, The Incitement to Discourse (1976) Chapter 14 Post Modernism and Its Critics 36. Renato Rosaldo, Grief and a Headhunter's Rage (1989) *37. Abu-Lughod, A Tale of Two Pregnancies (1991) *38. Hanson, The Making of the Maori: Cultural Invention and its Logic (1989) Chapter 15 Globalization, Power, and Agency 39. Arjun Appadurai, Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Economy (1990) 40. Philippe Bourgois, From Jibaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the Restructuring of Capitalism in El Barrio (1995) *41. Theodore Bestor, Kaiten-zushi and Konbini; Japanese Food Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2006) Bibliography Acknowledgements Index