Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Early History of Anthropological Theory
Overview
1. Bourgeois and Proletarians
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
2. The Science of Culture
Edward Burnett Tylor
3. Ethnical Periods
Lewis Henry Morgan
4. The Organic Analogy Reconsidered
Herbert Spencer
5. General Summary and Conclusion [
The Descent of Man]
Charles Darwin
6. Introduction [
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life]
Émile Durkheim
7. The Sociology of Charismatic Authority
Max Weber
Part Two: The Early Twentieth Century
Overview
8. The Methods of Ethnology
Franz Boas
9. Conclusion [
Primitive Society]
Robert Lowie
10. What Anthropology Is About
Alfred Louis Kroeber
11. Introduction [
Coming of Age in Samoa]
Margaret Mead
12. The Individual and the Pattern of Culture
Ruth Benedict
13. The Scope of Anthropology
Claude Levi-Strauss
14. Structuralism in Social Anthropology
Edmund Leach
15. Social Structure
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
16. The Subject, Method and Scope of This Inquiry [
Argonauts of the Western Pacific]
Bronislaw Malinowski
17. Introduction [
African Political Systems]
Meyer Fortes and Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
18. Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa
Max Gluckman
Part Three: The Later Twentieth Century and Beyond
Overview
19. The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society
Edward Sapir
20. Energy and Tools
Leslie A. White
21. The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism
Marvin Harris
22. Introduction
and Critique of the Vulgar Sociobiology [
The Use and Abuse of Biology]
Marshall Sahlins
23. Symbols in Ndembu Ritual
Victor Turner
24. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
Clifford Geertz
25. Language, Gender, and Power: An Anthropological Review
Susan Gal
26. Self-Interest and the Social Good: Some Implications of Hagen Gender Imagery
Marilyn Strathern
27. Introduction [
Europe and the People Without History]
Eric R. Wolf
28. The Birth of the Asylum
Michel Foucault
29. The Production and Reproduction of Legitimate Language
Pierre Bourdieu
30. Partial Truths
James Clifford
31. A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences
George E. Marcus and Michael M.J. Fischer
32. Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties
Sherry B. Ortner
33. A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent
Margaret Lock and Nancy Scheper-Hughes
34. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Economy
Arjun Appadurai
Conclusion
Glossary
Acknowledgements
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