Sahay, Vijay S. <br/><br/>
Anthropological Thought: From Evolutionism to Postmodernism and Beyond 

 - New Delhi  Rawat Publications  2024 
 - 316p 
<br/><br/>1. Introduction<br/>What are Theories?<br/>Why Anthropological Theory?<br/>2. Anthropological Ideas in Historical Perspective<br/>The Greek and Roman Philosophers, Sophists, and Stoics<br/>The Middle Age of the Church Fathers<br/>Anthropology during Renascence<br/>Anthropology and Enlightenment<br/>3. Evolutionism<br/>Basic Tenets of Evolutionism<br/>Christoph Meiners<br/>Gustav Klemm<br/>Sir Henry James Sumner Maine<br/>Johan Ferguson McLennan<br/>Theodor Waitz<br/>Adolf Philipp Wilhelm Bastian<br/>Johann Jacob Bachofen<br/>Herbert Spencer<br/>Lewis Henry Morgan<br/>Sir Edward Burnett Tylor<br/>Robert Randolph Marett<br/>Sir James George Frazer<br/>Criticisms of the 19th Century Evolutionism<br/>4. Diffusionism: British, German and American<br/>Basic Tenets of Diffusionism<br/>British Diffusionism / Pan-Egyptology<br/>Grafton Elliot Smith<br/>William James Perry<br/>W.H.R. Rivers<br/>German Diffusionism / Kulturkries<br/>Friedrich Ratzel<br/>Leo Frobenius<br/>Fritz Graebner<br/>Wilhelm Schmidt<br/>American Diffusionism / Culture Area Approach<br/>Culture Area Study is an Approach<br/>Clark Wissler<br/>Alfred Louis Kroeber<br/>5. Historical Particularism of Franz Boas<br/>What is Historical Particularism?<br/>Why There is No 'Boas School'?<br/>Boas on Evolutionism and Comparative Method<br/>6. British Social Anthropology:<br/>Structure-Functionalism and Functionalism<br/>Emile Durkheim<br/>STRUCTURE-FUNCTIONALISM<br/>A.R. Radcliffe-Brown<br/>E.E. Evans-Pritchard<br/>Talcott Parsons<br/>Robert K. Merton<br/>FUNCTIONALISM<br/>Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski<br/>Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski Brawl<br/>7. in Anthropology<br/>Ruth Fulton Benedict<br/>Culture and Personality/Psychological School<br/>Sigmund Freud<br/>Margaret Mead<br/>Ralph Linton<br/>Abram Kardiner<br/>Cora Du Bois<br/>Is Buddha not the Founder of the Psychological School<br/>in Anthropology?<br/>Buddha on Mind and Body<br/>8. Neo-Evolutionism<br/>V. Gordon Childe<br/>Julian Steward<br/>Leslie A. White<br/>9. Structuralism: Claude Levi-Strauss and Prague<br/>School of Linguistics<br/>The Important Books by Levi-Strauss<br/>Mythologiques<br/>Understanding Claude Levi-Strauss<br/>Prague School of Linguistics<br/>Levi-Strauss' Structural Analyses of Culture and Myth<br/>Alliance Theory<br/>Mechanical Model and Statistical Model<br/>Edmund Leach<br/>10 New Ethnography<br/>Emic and Etic Studies<br/>Ethnoscience<br/>Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis<br/>Cognitive Anthropology<br/>Componential Analysis<br/>Controlled Eliciting and Formal Analysis:<br/>Anthropology of Symbolism<br/>Clifford James Geertz<br/>11 Materialist Theories in Anthropology<br/>Historical Materialism<br/>Cultural Materialism: Marvin Harris<br/>Human Materialism: Paul J. Magnarella<br/>12. Postmodernism and Beyond<br/>Postmodernism in Anthropology<br/>Critical Anthropology<br/>Public Anthropology<br/>Business Anthropology<br/>13. Postscript<br/>Bibliography 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788131613382 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>P16  / Sa194