An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists
Material type: TextPublication details: Jaipur Rawat Publications 2011Edition: 3th edDescription: 399pISBN:- 9788131604250
- N35.1 M781
includes index and biblioraphy
PART I: FOUNDERS 1
1 Edward Tylon The Evolution of Culture 5
2 Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society 18
3 Franz Boas: Culture in Context 33
4 Emile Durkheim: The Organic Society 46
PART II: THE NATURE OF CULTURE 61
5 Alfred Kroeber: Configurations of Culture 65
6 Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture 78
7 Edward Sapir: Culture, Language, and the Individual 88
8 Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture 104
PART III: THE NATURE OF SOCIETY 117
9 Marcel Mauss: Elemental Categories, Total Facts 121
10 Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture 134
11 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown: The Structures of Society 147
12 Edward Evans-Pritchard: Social Anthropology,
Social History 161
PART IV: EVOLUTIONARY, ADAPTATIONIST, AND
MATERIALIST THEORIES 175
13 Leslie White: Evolution Emergent 179
14 Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution 194
15 Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism 204
16 Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism,and History 217
PART V: STRUCTURES, SYMBOLS, AND MEANING 227
17 Claude Levi-Strauss: Structuralism 231
18 Victor Turner: Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama 247
19 Clifford Geertz: An Interpretive Anthropology 259
20 Mary Douglas: Symbols and Structures,Pollution and Purity 272
PART VI: STRUCTURES, PRACTICE,AGENCY, POWER 289
21 James Fernandez: The Play of Tropes 295
22 Sherry Ortner: Symbols, Gender, Practice 307
23 Pierre Bourdieu: An Anthropology of Practice 325
24 Eric Wolf: Culture, History, Power 343
25 Marshall Sahlins: Culture Matters 365
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