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100 _aSahay, Vijay S.
245 _aAnthropological Thought: From Evolutionism to Postmodernism and Beyond
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505 _a1. Introduction What are Theories? Why Anthropological Theory? 2. Anthropological Ideas in Historical Perspective The Greek and Roman Philosophers, Sophists, and Stoics The Middle Age of the Church Fathers Anthropology during Renascence Anthropology and Enlightenment 3. Evolutionism Basic Tenets of Evolutionism Christoph Meiners Gustav Klemm Sir Henry James Sumner Maine Johan Ferguson McLennan Theodor Waitz Adolf Philipp Wilhelm Bastian Johann Jacob Bachofen Herbert Spencer Lewis Henry Morgan Sir Edward Burnett Tylor Robert Randolph Marett Sir James George Frazer Criticisms of the 19th Century Evolutionism 4. Diffusionism: British, German and American Basic Tenets of Diffusionism British Diffusionism / Pan-Egyptology Grafton Elliot Smith William James Perry W.H.R. Rivers German Diffusionism / Kulturkries Friedrich Ratzel Leo Frobenius Fritz Graebner Wilhelm Schmidt American Diffusionism / Culture Area Approach Culture Area Study is an Approach Clark Wissler Alfred Louis Kroeber 5. Historical Particularism of Franz Boas What is Historical Particularism? Why There is No 'Boas School'? Boas on Evolutionism and Comparative Method 6. British Social Anthropology: Structure-Functionalism and Functionalism Emile Durkheim STRUCTURE-FUNCTIONALISM A.R. Radcliffe-Brown E.E. Evans-Pritchard Talcott Parsons Robert K. Merton FUNCTIONALISM Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski Brawl 7. in Anthropology Ruth Fulton Benedict Culture and Personality/Psychological School Sigmund Freud Margaret Mead Ralph Linton Abram Kardiner Cora Du Bois Is Buddha not the Founder of the Psychological School in Anthropology? Buddha on Mind and Body 8. Neo-Evolutionism V. Gordon Childe Julian Steward Leslie A. White 9. Structuralism: Claude Levi-Strauss and Prague School of Linguistics The Important Books by Levi-Strauss Mythologiques Understanding Claude Levi-Strauss Prague School of Linguistics Levi-Strauss' Structural Analyses of Culture and Myth Alliance Theory Mechanical Model and Statistical Model Edmund Leach 10 New Ethnography Emic and Etic Studies Ethnoscience Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Cognitive Anthropology Componential Analysis Controlled Eliciting and Formal Analysis: Anthropology of Symbolism Clifford James Geertz 11 Materialist Theories in Anthropology Historical Materialism Cultural Materialism: Marvin Harris Human Materialism: Paul J. Magnarella 12. Postmodernism and Beyond Postmodernism in Anthropology Critical Anthropology Public Anthropology Business Anthropology 13. Postscript Bibliography
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