A History of AnthropologyThis 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. |
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Contents
Victorians Germans and a Frenchman | 16 |
Four Founding Fathers | 36 |
Expansion and Institutionalisation | 54 |
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| Title | A History of Anthropology A History of Anthropology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen Anthropology, Culture and Society, ISSN 1351-5403 |
| Authors | Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen |
| Editors | Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen |
| Publisher | Pluto Press, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jan 12, 2010 |
| ISBN | 074531385X, 9780745313856 |
| Length | 207 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / General |
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