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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 -- Glossary. |
| Responsibility: | H. Sidky. |
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