Engaging Anthropological Theory

Mark Moberg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Alabama, USA, and has many years of experience teaching anthropological theory. His other books include Slipping Away: Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean (2008).

1. Of Politics and Paradigms 2. Claims and Critiques of Anthropological Knowledge 3. Anthropology before Anthropologists 4. Theory and Practice to Change the World 5. Heirs to Order and Progress 6. Spencer, Darwin, and some Evolutionary Tales for our Time 7. The Boasian Revolution 8. Culture and Psychology 9. Functionalism, the Pure and the Hyphenated 10. Anti-Structure and the Collapse of Empire 11. Evolution Redux 12. Contemporary Materialist and Ecological Approaches 13. Symbols, Structures, and the “Web of Significance” 14. Postmodern Political Economy and Sensibilities 15. The Contemporary Anthropological Moment