A History of Anthropological Theory, Third Edition

Preface

Timeline

Introduction

Part One: The Early History of Anthropological Theory

Anthropology in Antiquity
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Voyages of Geographical Discovery
The Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
The Rise of Positivism
Marxism
Classical Cultural Evolutionism
Evolutionism vs. Diffusionism
Archaeology Comes of Age
Charles Darwin and Darwinism
Sigmund Freud
Émile Durkheim
Max Weber
Ferdinand de Saussure

Speaking About Anthropological Theory: Janice Boddy

Part Two: The Early Twentieth Century

American Cultural Anthropology

Franz Boas
Robert Lowie and Alfred Louis Kroeber
Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict
The Development of Psychological Anthropology

French Structural Anthropology

Marcel Mauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Edmund Leach and Mary Douglas
The Legacy of French Structural Anthropology

British Social Anthropology

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
Bronislaw Malinowski
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Max Gluckman and the "Manchester School"
The Legacy of British Social Anthropology

Speaking About Anthropological Theory: Lee D. Baker

Part Three: The Later Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries

Cognitive Anthropology

Edward Sapir
Ethnoscience and the "New Ethnography"

Cultural Neo-Evolutionism

Leslie White
Julian Steward
Marshall Sahlins and Elman Service
The New Archaeology

Cultural Materialism

Marvin Harris

Biologized Anthropology

Biology of Behaviour
The New Physical Anthropology
Ethology and Behavioural Genetics
Sociobiology

Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology

Victor Turner and Symbolic Anthropology
Clifford Geertz and Interpretive Anthropology
Post-processual Archaeology
The Influence of Symbolic and Interpretive Approaches

Transactionalism

Fredrik Barth

Feminism and Anthropology
Political Economy

Marx and the World System
Sins of the Fathers
Ideology, Culture, and Power

Postmodernity

Paul Feyerabend
Michel Foucault
Pierre Bourdieu
Anthropology as Text
Medical Anthropology

Globalization
Public Anthropology

Speaking About Anthropological Theory: Lila Abu-Lughod

Conclusion

Postmodern Predicaments
Agreeing to Disagree
"-Isms" in Schism
History of the Future
Beyond "One Dead Guy a Week"

Review Questions

Glossary

Sources and Suggested Reading

Illustration Sources

Index

A History of Anthropological Theory continues to stand well apart from its peers in both its narrative elegance and broad disciplinary sweep. Essays written by Janice Boddy, Lee Baker, and Lila Abu-Lughod are particularly exciting contributions to this edition, as they offer students rich and highly personal insight into the dynamic interplay between anthropological fieldwork, theory, and analysis.

Terri Castaneda, California State University, Sacramento

The third edition of an already popular book hits the mark once again in several important ways. First, it continues to promote the time-honoured four-field approach to anthropology. This is critical for students' understanding of the interconnected nature of ideas and the human experience. Second, the glossary and review questions are enhanced and are an added bonus. And finally, new life is breathed into theory with the 'stories' of contemporary anthropologists, who bring their uses of anthropological theory to life for the readers.

Yolanda Moses, University of California, Riverside

Erickson and Murphy's uniquely accessible and intelligent text draws students into a 'dialogue with the ancestors.' The coverage is extraordinary (especially when paired with the companion volume of readings) and resituates the history of anthropology as essential to contemporary disciplinary practice.

Regna Darnell, University of Western Ontario