Title: Anthropological theory : an introductory history /
Authors: McGee, R. Jon, 1955-; Warms, Richard L.
Year: 2017
Subjects: Anthropology Philosophy; Anthropology Methodology; Anthropology Methodology.; Anthropology Philosophy.
Abstract: "A comprehensive and accessible survey of the history of theory in anthropology, this anthology of classic and contemporary readings contains in-depth commentary in introductions and notes to help guide students through excerpts of seminal anthropological works. The commentary provides the background information needed to understand each article, its central concepts, and its relationship to the social and historical context in which it was written." -- From the publisher.
Contents: Part 1. Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory. Nineteenth-century evolutionism: Herbert Spencer, The social organism (1860) ; Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, The science of culture (1871) ; Lewis Henry Morgan, Ethnical periods (1877) ; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach : opposition of the materialist and idealist outlook (1845-1846) -- The foundations of sociological thought: Émile Durkheim, What is a social fact? (1895) ; Marcel Mauss, Extracts from The gift (1925) ; Max Weber, Class, status, party (1922) -- Part 2. Culture Theory in the Early Twentieth Century. The Boasians: Franz Boas, The methods of ethnology (1920) ; A. L. Kroeber, On the principle of order in civilization as exemplified by changes of fashion (1919) ; Ruth Benedict, The science of custom : the bearing of anthropology on contemporary thought (1929) ; Margaret Mead, Introduction to coming of age in Samoa (1928) ; Benjamin L. Whorf, The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language (1939) --^