Anthropology in Theory

Henrietta L. Moore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her publications include: Space, Text and Gender (Cambridge, 1986; Guilford, 1996), Feminism and Anthropology (Polity, 1988), A Passion for Difference (Polity, 1994), Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990 (with Megan Vaughan; James Currey, 1994), The Future of Anthropological Knowledge (1996), Anthropological Theory Today (Polity, 1999), Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa (with Todd Sanders and B. Kaare, 1999), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa (with Todd Sanders, 2001), and The Subject of Anthropology: Essays on Lacan and Levi-Strauss (Polity, 2005). Todd Sanders is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His publications include: Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa (with H. L. Moore and B. Kaare, 1999), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa (with H. L. Moore, 2001), and Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order (with Harry West, 2003).

Notes on the Editors.General Introduction: Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders.Acknowledgments.Anthropology and Epistemology: Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders.Part I: Section 1: Culture and Behavior.1. The Aims of Anthropological Research: Franz Boas.2. The Concept of Culture in Science: A. L. Kroeber.3. Problems and Methods of Approach: Gregory Bateson.4. Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts: Emile Durkheim.Section 2: Society and Social Patterns.5. The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology: Franz Boas.6. Anthropology and Sociology: Edward Sapir.7. The Individual and the Patterns of Culture: Ruth Benedict.Section 3: Function and Environment.8. The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis: Bronislaw Malinowski.9. The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology: Julian H. Steward.10. Energy and the Evolution of Culture: Leslie A. White.Section 4: Structure and System.11. On Social Structure: A. R. Radcliffe-Brown.12. Introduction to Political Systems of Highland Burma: E. R. Leach.13. Social Structure: Claude Levi-Strauss.Section 5: Methods and Objects.14. Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology: J. H. M. Beattie.15. Anthropological Data and Social Reality: Ladislav Holy and Milan Stuchlik.16. Objectification Objectified: Pierre Bourdieu.Section 6: Biology and Ontogeny.17. Becoming Persons: Consciousness and Sociality in Human Evolution: Tim Ingold.18. Customs and Cultures in Animals and Humans: Kathleen R. Gibson.19. Introduction to Mind, Materiality and History: Christina Toren.20. The Development of Meaning: Ontogeny and Culture: A. F. Robertson.21. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture: Clifford Geertz.Part II: Section 7: Meanings as Objects of Study.22. Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology: Talal Asad.23. Anthropology as Interpretive Quest: Roger M. Keesing.Section 8: Language and Method.24. Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology and The Structural Study of Myth: Claude Levi-Strauss.25. Ordinary Language and Human Action: Malcolm Crick.26. Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science: Maurice Bloch.Section 9: Thinking and Believing.27. Introduction to Belief Language, and Experience: Rodney Needham.28. The Antinomies: Stephen A. Tyler.29. Anthropology and Psychology: Towards an Epidemiology of Representations: Dan Sperber.Section 10: Bodies of Knowledges.30. Knowledge of the Body: Michael Jackson.31. The End of the Body?: Emily Martin.32. The Body of the Condemned: Michel Foucault.Part III: Section 11: Coherence and Contingency.33. Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism: Max Weber.34. Introduction to Europe and the People without History: Eric R. Wolf.35. Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution: Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff.36. Epochal Structures I: Reconstructing historical materialism: Donald L. Donham.37. Structures and the Habitus: Pierre Bourdieu.38. Two Lectures: Michel Foucault.Section 12: Universalisms and Domain Terms.39. Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body: Some Anthropological Interventions in a Long Conversation: Michael Lambek.40. Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?: Sherry B. Ortner.41. Global Anxieties: Henrietta L. Moore.Section 13: Perspectives and their Logics.42. The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism: Robert J. Thornton.43. Writing Against Culture: Lila Abu-Lughod.44. Cutting the Network: Marilyn Strathern.Section 14: Objectivity, Morality and Truth.45. The Objectivity of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy: Max Weber.46. The Primacy of the Ethical: Nancy Scheper-Hughes.47. Moral Models in Anthropology: Roy D'Andrade.48. Postmodernist Anthropology, Subjectivity, and Science: A Modernist Critique: Melford E. Spiro.Part IV: Section 15: The Anthropology of Western Modes of Thought.49. Preface to The Invention of Women: Oyeronke Oyewumi.50. Valorizing the Present: Orientalism, Postcoloniality, and the Human Sciences: Vivek Dhareshwar.51. Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.Section 16: (Re)defining Objects of Enquiry.52. Culture, Genuine and Spurious: The Politics of Indianness in the Vaupes Colombia: Jean E. Jackson.53. The Near and the Elsewhere: Marc Auge.54. Relativism: Bruno Latour.Section 17: Imagining Methodologies and Meta-things.55. Beyond Culture: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference: Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson.56. What is at Stake -- and is not -- in the Idea and Practice of Multi-sited Ethnography: George E. Marcus.57. Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination: Arjun Appadurai.Index