A History of Anthropological Theory, Fifth Edition

Paul A. Erickson is a past professor in the Department of Anthropology at Saint Mary’s University. Liam D. Murphy is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento.

List of Figures

Preface

Timeline

Introduction

Part One: The Early History of Anthropological Theory

Anthropology in Antiquity
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Voyages of Geographical Discovery
The Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
The Rise of Positivism
Marxism
Classical Cultural Evolutionism
Evolutionism versus Diffusionism
Archaeology Comes of Age
Charles Darwin and Darwinism
Sigmund Freud
Émile Durkheim
Max Weber
Ferdinand de Saussure

Part Two: The Earlier Twentieth Century

American Cultural Anthropology
Franz Boas
Robert Lowie and Alfred Louis Kroeber
Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict
The Development of Psychological Anthropology
French Structural Anthropology
Marcel Mauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Edmund Leach and Mary Douglas
Latter-Day Structuralists
Structural Marxists
Marshall Sahlins
The Legacy of French Structural Anthropology
British Social Anthropology
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
Bronislaw Malinowski
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Max Gluckman and the "Manchester School"
The Legacy of British Social Anthropology

Part Three: The Later Twentieth Century

Cognitive Anthropology
Edward Sapir
Ethnoscience and the "New Ethnography"
Cultural Neo-evolutionism
Leslie White
Julian Steward
Marshall Sahlins and Elman Service
The New Archaeology
Cultural Materialism
Marvin Harris
Nature versus Nurture
Biology of Behaviour
The New Physical Anthropology
Ethology and Behavioural Genetics
Sociobiology
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
Victor Turner and Symbolic Anthropology
Clifford Geertz and Interpretive Anthropology
Post-processual Archaeology
The Influence of Symbolic and Interpretive Approaches
Transactionalism
Fredrik Barth
Anthropology and Gender
Feminism and Its Effects
Culture and Sexualities
Political Economy
Marx and the World System
Sins of the Fathers
Ideology, Culture, and Power
Postcolonialism
Postmodernity
Paul Feyerabend
Michel Foucault
Pierre Bourdieu
Anthropology as Text
Medical Anthropology

Part Four: The Early Twenty-First Century

Globalization
Public Anthropology
World Traditions in Anthropology
The English Language and Anglo-American Hegemony
"Other" Anthropologies
Anthropologies of the Digital Age

Conclusion

Forgetting the Past
Agreeing to Disagree
"-isms" in Schism
History of the Future
Beyond "One Dead Guy a Week"

Study Questions

Glossary

Sources and Suggested Reading

Index