History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth 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 FiguresPrefaceTimeline Introduction Part One: The Early History of Anthropological Theory Anthropology in AntiquityThe Middle AgesThe Renaissance Voyages of Geographical DiscoveryThe Scientific RevolutionThe EnlightenmentThe Rise of Positivism MarxismClassical Cultural Evolutionism Evolutionism versus Diffusionism Archaeology Comes of AgeCharles Darwin and Darwinism Sigmund FreudÉmile DurkheimMarcel Mauss Max WeberFerdinand de SaussurePart Two: The Earlier Twentieth Century American Cultural Anthropology Franz Boas Robert Lowie and Alfred Louis Kroeber Margaret Mead and Ruth BenedictZora Neale HurstonEdward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf The Development of Psychological Anthropology British Social Anthropology A.R. Radcliffe-Brown Bronislaw Malinowski E.E. Evans-Pritchard Edmund LeachMax Gluckman and the "Manchester School" The Legacy of British Social Anthropology Part Three: The Later Twentieth CenturyFrench Structural AnthropologyClaude Lévi-Strauss Mary Douglas Latter-Day StructuralistsStructural Marxists Marshall Sahlins The Legacy of French Structural Anthropology Cognitive AnthropologyEthnoscience and the "New Ethnography" Cultural Neo-evolutionism Leslie WhiteJulian Steward Marshall Sahlins and Elman Service The New ArchaeologyCultural Materialism Marvin Harris Nature versus Nurture Biology of Behaviour The New Physical Anthropology Ethology and Behavioural Genetics Sociobiology The Symbolic Turn 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 Feminism Political EconomyMarx and the World System Sins of the Fathers Ideology, Culture, and Power Postcolonialism Linguistic Anthropology Comes of AgeSpeech Acts and the Ethnography of CommunicationEthnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics Postmodernity Paul Feyerabend Michel Foucault Pierre Bourdieu  Anthropology as Text  Critical Medical Anthropology Part Four: The Early Twenty-First Century Globalization Culture, Gender, and Sexualities Public Anthropology Development and ControversyDistinguishing Public from Applied AnthropologyDebating Fieldwork Ethics and the MilitaryServing a Global PublicWorld Traditions and Collaborative Anthropology National Traditions and the Dominance of Anglo-America Collaboration with "Other" Voices Anthropologies of the Digital Age

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