Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory

Paul A. Erickson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax. Liam D. Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento.

• Preface Introduction Part One: The Early History of Anthropological Theory Overview 1. Bourgeois and Proletarians Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 2. The Science of Culture Edward Burnett Tylor 3. Ethnical Periods Lewis Henry Morgan 4. The Organic Analogy Reconsidered Herbert Spencer 5. General Summary and Conclusion [The Descent of Man] Charles Darwin 6. [Part] III [Civilization and Its Discontents] Sigmund Freud 7. Introduction [The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life] Emile Durkheim 8. The Sociology of Charismatic Authority Max Weber 9. Nature of the Linguistic Sign and Synchronic and Diachronic Law Ferdinand de Saussure Part Two: The Earlier Twentieth Century Overview 10. The Methods of Ethnology Franz Boas 11. Conclusion [Primitive Society] Robert Lowie 12. What Anthropology Is About Alfred Louis Kroeber 13. Introduction [Coming of Age in Samoa] Margaret Mead 14. The Individual and the Pattern of Culture Ruth Benedict 15. Structuralism and Ecology Claude Levi-Strauss 16. Structuralism in Social Anthropology 17. Introduction [Islands of History] Marshall Sahlins 18. Social Structure Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown 19. The Subject, Method, and Scope of This Inquiry [Argonauts of the Western Pacific] Bronislaw Malinowski 20. Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa Max Gluckman Part Three: The Later Twentieth Century Overview 21. The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society Edward Sapir 22. Energy and Tools Leslie White 23. The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism Marvin Harris 24. Symbols in Ndembu Ritual Victor Turner 25. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture Clifford Geertz 26. Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology Sally Slocum 27. Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory Judith Butler 28. The Big Picture: Masculinities in Recent World History R.W. Connell 29. The New Anthropology of Sexuality Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons 30. Introduction [Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter] Talal Asad 31. Knowing the Oriental Edward W. Said 32. Introduction [Europe and the People Without History] Eric R. Wolf 33. The Birth of the Asylum Michel Foucault 34. The Peculiar History of Scientific Reason Pierre Bourdieu 35. Partial Truths James Clifford 36. A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences George E. Marcus and Michael M.J. Fischer 37. Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties Sherry B. Ortner 38. A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent Margaret Lock and Nancy Scheper-Hughes Part Four: The Early Twenty-First Century Overview 39. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy Arjun Appadurai 40. Developments in US Anthropology since the 1980s, a Supplement: The Reality of Center-Margin Relations, To Be Sure, but Changing (and Hopeful) Affinities in These Relations George E. Marcus 41. Counterinsurgency as a Cultural System David B. Edwards 42. Introduction [Other People's Anthropologies] Alexandar Boskovic and Thomas Hylland Eriksen 43. From Kinship to Link-up: Cell Phones and Social Networking in Jamaica Heather Horst and Daniel Miller Conclusion Glossary Sources