Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory

This comprehensive anthology offers over 40 readings that are critical to the understanding of anthropological theory and the development of anthropology as an academic discipline. The fourth edition maintains a strong focus on the "four-field" roots of the discipline in North America but has been reorganized with a new section on twenty-first-century theory, including coverage of postcolonial and public anthropology. New key terms and introductions accompany each reading and a revamped glossary makes the book more student-friendly. Used on its own, or together with the overview text A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition, this anthology offers a flexible and unrivaled introduction to anthropological theory that reflects not only the history but also the changing nature of the discipline today. For additional resources, visit the "Teaching Theory" page at www.utpteachingculture.com.

Table of Contents:
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. [Part] III [Civilization and Its Discontents] Sigmund Freud 7. Introduction [The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life] Emile Durkheim 8. The Sociology of Charismatic Authority Max Weber 9. Nature of the Linguistic Sign and Synchronic and Diachronic Law Ferdinand de Saussure Part Two: The Earlier Twentieth Century Overview 10. The Methods of Ethnology Franz Boas 11. Conclusion [Primitive Society] Robert Lowie 12. What Anthropology Is About Alfred Louis Kroeber 13. Introduction [Coming of Age in Samoa] Margaret Mead 14. The Individual and the Pattern of Culture Ruth Benedict 15. Structuralism and Ecology Claude Levi-Strauss 16. Structuralism in Social Anthropology Edmund Leach 17. Introduction [Islands of History] Marshall Sahlins 18. Social Structure Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown 19. The Subject, Method, and Scope of This Inquiry [Argonauts of the Western Pacific] Bronislaw Malinowski 20. Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa Max Gluckman Part Three: The Later Twentieth Century Overview 21. The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society Edward Sapir 22. Energy and Tools Leslie White 23. The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism Marvin Harris 24. Symbols in Ndembu Ritual Victor Turner 25. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture Clifford Geertz 26. Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology Sally Slocum 27. Language, Gender, and Power: An Anthropological Review Susan Gal 28. Knowing the Oriental Edward W. Said 29. Globalization and Postcolonial States Akhil Gupta and Aradhana Sharma 30. Introduction [Europe and the People Without History] Eric R. Wolf 31. The Birth of the Asylum Michel Foucault 32. The Production and Reproduction of Legitimate Language Pierre Bourdieu 33. Partial Truths James Clifford 34. A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences George E. Marcus and Michael M.J. Fischer 35. Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties Sherry B. Ortner 36. A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent Margaret Lock and Nancy Sheper-Hughes Part Four: The Early Twenty-First Century Overview 37. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy Arjun Appadurai 38. Developments in US Anthropology since the 1980s, a Supplement: The Reality of Center-Margin Relations, To Be Sure, but Changing (and Hopeful) Affinities in These Relations George E. Marcus 39. Anthropology and The Bell Curve Jonathan Marks 40. Counterinsurgency as a Cultural System David B. Edwards 41. Introduction [Other People's Anthropologies] Alexandar Boskovic and Thomas Hylland Eriksen Conclusion Glossary Sources

About the Author :
Paul A. Erickson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at St. Mary's University in Halifax. Liam D. Murphy is a Professor in the Anthropology Department at California State University, Sacramento.