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Perspectives on culture : a critical introduction to theory in cultural anthropology
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Perspectives on culture : a critical introduction to theory in cultural anthropology

Author: H Sidky
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: H Sidky
ISBN: 0130931349 9780130931344
OCLC Number: 53215796
Description: xii, 531 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Preface --
The Nature of Anthropology and Anthropological Knowledge --
Science and Anthropology: Epistemological Questions --
Evolutionism and the Beginnings of Anthropology during the Nineteenth Century --
Lewis Henry Morgan and the Evolution of Society --
The Diffusionists: Unbridled Imagination and the History of Culture --
Historical Particularism: The Anthropology of Franz Boas and the Demise of Theory --
After Boas: The Development of American Anthropology --
Bronislaw Malinowski, Functionalism, and Modern Anthropology --
From Functionalism to Structural-Functionalism: The Anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown --
Cultural Evolution Returns: Leslie White and Julian Steward --
French Structuralism: The Anthropology of Claude LÄvi-Strauss --
Ethnoscience and Cognitive Anthropology: The Problem of Local Knowledge --
Symbols, Symbolic Anthropology and the Interpretation of Culture --
Scientific, Materialist and Marxist Anthropology --
Postmodern Anthropology --
Conclusion: Anthropology in the 21st Century --
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Responsibility: H. Sidky.
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