The rise of anthropological theory
Subtitle: a history of theories of culture
By: Marvin Harris ; with an introduction by Maxine L. Margolis.
Edition: Updated ed.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 806
Subjects: Ethnology -- History; Ethnology -- Philosophy; Culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 688-764) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction; title: 2 Enlightenment; title: 3 Reaction and Recovery: The Early Nineteenth Century; title: 4 Rise of Racial Determinism; title: 5 Spencerism; title: 6 Evolutionism: Methods; title: 7 The Evolutionists: Results; title: 8 Dialectical Materialism; title: 9 Historical Particularism: Boas; title: 10 The Boasian Milieu; title: 11 The Ethnographic Basis of Particularism; title: 12 Kroeber; title: 13 Lowie; title: 14 Diffusionism; title: 15 Culture and Personality: Pre-Freudian; title: 16 Culture and Personality: Freudian; title: 17 Culture and Personality: New Directions; title: 18 French Structuralism; title: 19 British Social Anthropology; title: 20 Emics, Etics, and the New Ethnography; title: 21 Statistical Survey and the Nomothetic Revival; title: 22 Cultural Materialism: General Evolution; title: 23 Cultural Materialism: Cultural Ecology.