基本説明
Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, the book focuses on themes and controversies characteristic of post-World War I anthropology.
Full Description
This is the first book to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring major figures such as Morgan and Tylor, it goes on to provide a comprehensive overview of the discipline in the twentieth century. The bulk of the book is devoted to themes and controversies characteristic of post First World War anthropology, from structural functionalism via structuralism to hermeneutics, cultural ecology, discourse analysis and, most recently, globalization and postmodernism. The authors emphasise throughout the need to see changes in the discipline in a wider social, political and intellectual context. This is a timely, concise history of a major discipline, in an engaging and thought-provoking narrative, that will appeal to students of anthropology worldwide.
Contents
Preface 1. Beginnings 2. Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman 3. Four founding fathers 4. Expansion and institutionalisation 5. Forms of change 6. The power of symbols 7. Questioning authority 8. The end of modernism? 9. Reconstructions Bibliography Index
