ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY AN INTPB de Richard L. Warms

Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History, Seventh Edition, presents a selection of classic and contemporary essays in anthropology with annotations from authors R. Jon McGee and Richard L.Warms.

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R. Jon McGee is professor of anthropology at Texas State University. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Watching Lacandon Maya Lives, Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia (coedited with Richard L. Warms), and Sacred Realms: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion (coedited with Warms and James Garber), now in its second edition.

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TOC of the Sixth Edition Part I: Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism 1. Herbert Spencer: The Social Organism (1860) 2. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor: The Science of Culture (1871) 3. Lewis Henry Morgan: Ethnical Periods (1877) 4. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook (1846) The Foundations of Sociological Thought 5. Émile Durkheim: What Is a Social Fact? (1895) 6. Marcel Mauss: Excerpts from The Gift (1925) 7. Max Weber: Class, Status, Party (1922) Part II: Culture Theory in the Early Twentieth Century The Boasians 8. Franz Boas: The Methods of Ethnology (1920) 9. A. L. Kroeber: On the Principle of Order in Civilization as Exemplified by Changes of Fashion (1919) 10. Ruth Benedict: The Science Of Custom: The Bearing of Anthropology on Contemporary Thought (1929) 11. Margaret Mead: Introduction to Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) 12. Benjamin L. Whorf: The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language (1941) Functionalism 13. Bronislaw Malinowski: The Essentials of the Kula (1922) 14. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown: On Joking Relationships (1940) 15. Max Gluckman: The Licence in Ritual (1956) Part III: Theory At Mid-Century The Reemergence of Evolutionary Thought 16. Leslie White: Energy and the Evolution of Culture (1943) 17. Julian Steward: The Patrilineal Band (1955) 18. Morton H. Fried: On the Evolution of Social Stratification and the State (1960) Neomaterialism 19. Marvin Harris: The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle (1966) 20. Eric Wolf: Peasantry and Its Problems (1966) Structure, Language, and Cognition 21. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Four Winnebago Myths: A Structural Sketch (1960) 22. Harold C. Conklin: Hanunóo Color Categories (1955) 23. Eugene Hunn: The Tenejapa Tzeltal Version of the Animal Kingdom (1975) Part IV: Late Twentieth Century Developments Sociobiology and Behavioral Ecology 24. Edward O. Wilson: The Morality of the Gene (1975) 25. Rebecca Bliege Bird, Eric Alden Smith, and Douglas W. Bird: The Hunting Handicap: Costly Signaling in Human Foraging Strategies (2001) Feminist Anthropology 26. Sally Slocum: Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology (1975) 27. Eleanor Leacock: Interpreting the Origins of Gender Inequality: Conceptual and Historical Problems (1983) Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology 28. Mary Douglas: External Boundaries (1966) 29. Victor Turner: Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (1967) 30. Clifford Geertz: Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (1972) Background to Postmodernism 31. Pierre Bourdieu: Structures, Habitus, Practices (1980) 32. Michel Foucault: The Incitement to Discourse (1976) Postmodernism 33. Renato Rosaldo: Grief and a Headhunters Rage (1989) 34. Allan Hanson: The Making of the Maori: Cultural Invention and Its Logic (1989) Part V: Trends in Contemporary Anthropology Gender 35. Lila Abu-Lughod: A Tale of Two Pregnancies (1995) 36. David Valentine: 'I Went to Bed with My Own Kind Once': The Erasure of Desire in the Name of Identity (2003) 37. HollyWardlow: Anger, Economy, and Female Agency: Problematizing "Prostitution" and "Sex Work" among the Huli of Papua New Guinea (2004) Globalization 38. Arjun Appadurai: Disjuncture and the Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990) 39. Theodore Bestor: Kaiten-Zushi and Konbini: Japanese Food Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2006) 40. Jonathan Friedman and Kajsa Ekholm Friedman: Globalization as a Discourse of Hegemonic Crisis: A Global Systemic Analysis (2013) Agency and Structure 41. Philippe Bourgois: From Jíbaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the Restructuring of Capitalism in El Barrio (1995) 42. Sherry Ortner: Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency (2006) 43. Ruth Gomberg Mun¿oz: Willing to Work: Agency and Vulnerability in an Undocumented Immigrant Network (2010)