Theoretical anthropology
By: David Bidney.
Contributors: Bidney, Martin.
Edition: 2nd ed. / with a new introduction by Martin Bidney.
Publisher: Transaction
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
Subjects: Anthropology.
Description: Theoretical Anthropology is a major contribution to the historical and critical study of the assumptions underlying the development of modern cultural anthropology. In the new introduction, Martin Bidney discusses the present state of anthropology and contrasts it with the scene surveyed in Theoretical Anthropology. He discusses the relevance of David Bidney's work to our present concerns. Also included in this work is the second edition's introductory essay by David Bidney, written fifteen years after the first edition of Theoretical Anthropology. Here the author examines his original aims in writing this book. Theoretical Anthropology has helped to create among anthropologists the present climate of theoretical self-awareness and broad humanistic concerns. It has become a standard reference work for anthropologists as well as sociologists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-505) and index.
Originally published: New York : Schocken Books, 1967.