Perspectives on Culture : A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology

Abstract

1. The Nature of Anthropology and Anthropological Knowledge. 2. Science and Anthropology: Epistemological Questions. 3. Evolutionism and the Beginnings of Anthropology during the Nineteenth Century. 4. Lewis Henry Morgan and the Evolution of Society. 5. The Diffusionists: Unbridled Imagination and the History of Culture. 6. Historical Particularism: The Anthropology of Franz Boas and the Demise of Theory. 7. After Boas: The Development of American Anthropology. 8. Bronislaw Malinowski, Functionalism, and Modern Anthropology. 9. From Functionalism to Structural-Functionalism: The Anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown. 10. Cultural Evolution Returns: Leslie White and Julian Steward. 11. French Structuralism: The Anthropology of Claude Lvi-Strauss. 12. Ethnoscience and Cognitive Anthropology: The Problem of Local Knowledge. 13. Symbols, Symbolic Anthropology and the Interpretation of Culture. 14. Scientific, Materialist and Marxist Anthropology. 15. Postmodern Anthropology. 16. Conclusion: Anthropology in the 21st Century.

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