Anthropology in Theory

The 57 articles collected in this volume - together with the editors' introduction - provide an overview of the key debates in anthropological theory over the past century. This book provides the most comprehensive selection of readings and insightful overview of anthropological theory available. It identifies crucial conceptual signposts and new theoretical directions for the discipline. It discusses broader debates in the social sciences: debates about society and culture; structure and agency; identities and technologies; subjectivities and trans locality; and meta-theory, ontology and epistemology.

ISBN 0631229140   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780631229148 (What's this?)   Pages 680 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Weight (grammes) 1356 Format Hardback   Published in Chicester Publication date 01 Aug 2005   Height (mm) 258 Non-book description xxi, 656 :   Width (mm) 187 Library of Congress GN25.A577   Spine width (mm) 41 DEWEY 301   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		General introduction by Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders
		Anthropology and epistemology by Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders		1
1		The aims of anthropological research by Franz Boas		26
2		The concept of culture in science by A. L. Kroeber		36
3		Problems and methods of approach by Gregory Bateson		41
4		Rules for the explanation of social facts by Emile Durkheim		47
5		The limitations of the comparative method of anthropology by Franz Boas		58
6		Anthropology and sociology by Edward Sapir		68
7		The individual and the pattern of culture by Ruth Benedict		77
8		The group and the individual in functional analysis by Bronislaw Malinowski		88
9		The concept and method of cultural ecology by Julian H. Steward		100
10		Energy and the evolution of culture by Leslie A. White		107
11		On social structure by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown		122
12		Introduction to Political systems of highland Burma by E. R. Leach		128
13		Social structure by Claude Levi-Strauss		136
14		Understanding and explanation in social anthropology by J. H. M. Beattie		148
15		Anthropological data and social reality by Ladislav Holy and Milan Stuchlik		159
16		Objectification objectified by Pierre Bourdieu		169
17		Becoming persons : consciousness and sociality in human evolution by Tim Ingold		180
18		Customs and cultures in animals and humans : neurobiological and evolutionary considerations by Kathleen R. Gibson		193
19		Introduction to Mind, materiality and history by Christina Toren		204
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"Anthropology in Theory is a dazzling collection and Moore and Sanders have impeccable taste in theory. Their selection of readings---an exhibit of famous voices (from Boas to Bourdieu), visionary positions (from functionalism to poststructuralism) and clarion and root concepts (from cultural pattern to cultural hybridity)---is not only well-designed; the book is certain to be a boon to the practice of teaching anthropology in the new millennium." Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago "This volume offers intellectual questions and debates by which anthropology has come to know itself as a discipline. The editors challenge us to recognize new forms of imagination emerging within and outside of anthropological practice. In this effort, they surpass themselves." Debbora Battaglia, Mt. Holyoke College "This book breaks fascinating ground in its breadth of coverage and depth of analysis. The editors have done an exemplary job of engaging the study of Anthropology from myriad angles in an attempt to show the student that mastery of this discipline takes a keen eye and a mind willing to go beyond surface debate into the core of each 'theory'." The Electric Review

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