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History and Theory in Anthropology.

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Title/Author:	History and Theory in Anthropology./
Author:	Barnard, Alan.
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ISBN:	9780511049897

History and Theory in Anthropology.
Barnard, Alan.

History and Theory in Anthropology. - 1 online resource (257 pages)

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Visions of anthropology -- Anthropology and ethnology -- The 'four fields' approach -- Theory and ethnography -- Anthropological paradigms -- The notion of a 'paradigm' -- Diachronic, synchronic, and interactive perspectives -- Society and culture -- Visions of the history of anthropology -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING -- 2 Precursors of the anthropological tradition -- Natural law and the social contract -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- Definitions of humanity in eighteenth-century Europe -- Feral children -- The Orang Outang -- Notions of the 'Savage' -- Sociological and anthropological thought -- The sociological tradition -- Polygenesis and monogenesis -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING -- 3 Changing perspectives on evolution -- Biological and anthropological traditions -- Unilinear evolutionism -- Maine, Lubbock, and Morgan -- Matrilineality versus patrilineality -- Theories of 'totemism' -- Tylor and Frazer on 'early' religion -- Universal evolutionism -- V. Gordon Childe -- Leslie A. White -- Multilinear evolutionism and cultural ecology -- Julian H. Steward -- George Peter Murdock -- Neo-Darwinism -- Sociobiology -- The symbolic revolution? -- Current trends -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING -- 4 Diffusionist and culture-area theories -- Antecedents of diffusionism: philology, M�uller, and Bastian -- The philological tradition: diffusionism before the diffusionists? -- Diffusionism proper -- German-Austrian diffusionism -- British diffusionism -- Diffusionism today? -- Culture-area and regional approaches -- The culture-area approach in American anthropology -- Regional comparison, national traditions, and regional traditions -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING.

Alan Barnard's balanced and judicious overview of anthropological theory covering the historical contexts of the great debates, tracing the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It discusses evolutionism; diffusionism and culture area theories, functionalism and structural-functionalism; action-centred theories; processual and Marxist perspectives; relativism, structuralism and post-structuralism; interpretivism and postmodernism.

ISBN: 9780511049897Subjects--Topical Terms:

1373823
Anthropology--Philosophy.
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554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GN33 .B34 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 301.01

History and Theory in Anthropology.
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505 0 $a Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Visions of anthropology -- Anthropology and ethnology -- The 'four fields' approach -- Theory and ethnography -- Anthropological paradigms -- The notion of a 'paradigm' -- Diachronic, synchronic, and interactive perspectives -- Society and culture -- Visions of the history of anthropology -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING -- 2 Precursors of the anthropological tradition -- Natural law and the social contract -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- Definitions of humanity in eighteenth-century Europe -- Feral children -- The Orang Outang -- Notions of the 'Savage' -- Sociological and anthropological thought -- The sociological tradition -- Polygenesis and monogenesis -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING -- 3 Changing perspectives on evolution -- Biological and anthropological traditions -- Unilinear evolutionism -- Maine, Lubbock, and Morgan -- Matrilineality versus patrilineality -- Theories of 'totemism' -- Tylor and Frazer on 'early' religion -- Universal evolutionism -- V. Gordon Childe -- Leslie A. White -- Multilinear evolutionism and cultural ecology -- Julian H. Steward -- George Peter Murdock -- Neo-Darwinism -- Sociobiology -- The symbolic revolution? -- Current trends -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING -- 4 Diffusionist and culture-area theories -- Antecedents of diffusionism: philology, M�uller, and Bastian -- The philological tradition: diffusionism before the diffusionists? -- Diffusionism proper -- German-Austrian diffusionism -- British diffusionism -- Diffusionism today? -- Culture-area and regional approaches -- The culture-area approach in American anthropology -- Regional comparison, national traditions, and regional traditions -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING.
505 8 $a 5 Functionalism and structural-functionalism -- Evolutionist precursors and the organic analogy -- Durkheimian sociology -- The functionalism of Malinowski -- Functionalism and fieldwork -- A scientific theory of culture? -- The structural-functionalism of Radcliffe-Brown -- A natural science of society? -- Function, structure, and structural form -- Semantic structure or social structure? -- Two theories of totemism -- The influence of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING -- 6 Action-centred, processual, and Marxist perspectives -- Action-centred and processual approaches -- Roots in sociology -- Roots in anthropology -- Transactionalism -- The Manchester School -- Marxist approaches -- Key concepts in Marxist anthropology -- The structural Marxism of Godelier -- The 'land and labour' Marxism of Meillassoux -- Political economy and globalization theory -- Three ethnographic debates -- Friedman versus Leach: the political economy of the Kachin -- Wilmsen versus Lee: Kalahari history and ethnography -- Obeyesekere versus Sahlins: the death of Captain Cook -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING -- 7 From relativism to cognitive science -- Franz Boas and the rise of cultural relativism -- Culture and personality -- Primitive thought? -- The anti-relativism of L�evy-Bruhl -- The linguistic relativism of Whorf -- Criticisms of Whorfianism -- The rationality debate -- Towards cognitive science -- Structural semantics -- Cognitive anthropology -- Ethnoscience -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING -- 8 Structuralism, from linguistics to anthropology -- Saussure and structural linguistics -- Saussure and his 'Course' -- Four key distinctions -- After Saussure -- L�evi-Strauss and structural anthropology -- Structuralism, pattern, and ideas -- Elementary structures of kinship -- The culinary triangle -- The Oedipus myth.
505 8 $a Structuralism and national traditions of anthropology -- Concludin summary -- FURTHER READING -- 9 Poststructuralists, feminists, and (other) mavericks -- Poststructuralism and anthropology -- Derrida, Althusser, and Lacan -- Bourdieu's practice theory -- Foucault's theory of knowledge and power -- Feminism in anthropology -- From gender studies to feminist anthropology -- Gender as a symbolic construction -- Gender as a complex set of social relations -- Embodiment -- Two maverick eclectics -- Structure and conflict: Bateson on national character -- Structure and action: Douglas on grid and group -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING -- 10 Interpretive and postmodernist approaches -- Evans-Pritchard's interpretive approach -- Geertz's interpretivism -- Concepts of changing times -- Reflexivity and reflexivism -- Orientalism, occidentalism, and globalization -- Postmodernism and postmodern anthropology -- The return to relativism -- 'Writing culture' -- Problems with postmodernism -- Mixed approaches: towards a compromise? -- Concluding summary -- FURTHER READING -- 11 Conclusions -- National traditions and the future of anthropological theory -- Further thoughts on histories of anthropology -- Concluding summary -- Appendix 1 Dates of birth and death of individuals mentioned in the text -- Appendix 2 Glossary -- References -- Index.
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