A History Of Anthropology (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: November 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780745313856
Subjects: Anthropology; History of specific subjects; Philosophy; Anthropology - General; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; History
Description: "This book covers the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring major figures such as Morgan and Tylor, it goes on to provide a comprehensive overview of the discipline in the twentieth century.

The bulk of the book is devoted to themes and controversies characteristic of post First World War anthropology, from structural functionalism via structuralism to hermeneutics, cultural ecology, discourse analysis and, most recently, globalization and postmodernism. The authors emphasise throughout the need to see changes in the discipline in a wider social, political and intellectual context."--BOOK JACKET.