A History of Anthropological Theory Erickson Murphy 1487507291 9781487507299

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Author: Erickson , Murphy

Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory curates and collects many of the most important publications of anthropological thought spanning the last hundred years, building a strong foundation in both classical and contemporary theory. The sixth edition includes seventeen new readings, with a sharpened focus on public anthropology, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and the Anthropocene. Each piece of writing is accompanied by a short introduction, key terms, study questions, and further readings that elucidate the original text.

On its own or together with A History of Anthropological Theory, sixth edition, this anthology offers an unrivalled introduction to the theory of anthropology that reflects not only its history but also the changing nature of the discipline today.

1. Bourgeois and Proletarians [1888]

2. The Science of Culture [1873]

3. Ethnical Periods [1877]

4. General Summary and Conclusion [The Descent of Man] [1871]

5. Introduction [The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life] [1915]

6. Conclusion [The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies] [1950]

7. The Sociology of Charismatic Authority [1922]

8. Nature of the Linguistic Sign and Synchronic and Diachronic Law [1916]

PART TWO: The Earlier Twentieth Century

Overview

9. The Methods of Ethnology [1920]

10. Conclusion [Primitive Society] [1920]

11. What Anthropology Is About [1923]

12. Introduction [Coming of Age in Samoa] [1928]

13. The Individual and the Pattern of Culture [1934]

14. The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society [1927]

15. Introduction and Part One: Folk Tales, John and the Frog, Witness of the Johnstown Flood in Heav

16. Social Structure [1958]

17. The Subject, Method, and Scope of This Inquiry [Argonauts of the Western Pacific] [1922]

18. Model Systems [1954]

19. Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa [1963]

PART THREE: The Later Twentieth Century

Overview

20. Structuralism and Ecology [1984]

21. Introduction [Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo] [1966]

22. Introduction [Islands of History] [1985]

23. Componential Analysis and the Study of Meaning [1956]

24. Energy and Tools [1959]

25. Archaeology as Anthropology [1962]

26. The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism [1979]

27. The New Physical Anthropology [1951]

28. Symbols in Ndembu Ritual [1967]

29. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture [1973]

30. Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology [1975]

31. The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship [1987]

32. Introduction [Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter] [1973]

33. Knowing the Oriental [1979]

34. Introduction [Europe and the People Without History] [1982]

35. Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication [1964]

36. The Subject and Power [1982]

37. Structures, Habitus, and Practices [1977]

38. Partial Truths [1986]

39. A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences [1986]

40. A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and

PARTY FOUR: The Early Twenty-First Century

Overview

41. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy [1990]

42. “We’re Here and We’re Queer!”: An Introduction to Studies in Queer Anthropology [2014]

43. David Maybury-Lewis and Cultural Survival: Providing a Model for Public Anthropology, Advocacy,

44. Introduction [Other People’s Anthropologies] [2008]

45. An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: “Ontology” Is Just Another Word for

46. From Kinship to Link-up: Cell Phones and Social Networking in Jamaica [2005]

47. Introduction: Contemporary Theoretical Debate in Archaeology [Archaeological Theory Today] [2012

48. Introduction [Is Science Racist?: Debating Race] [2017]

49. Earth Stalked by Man [2016]