Paul A. Erickson - Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition

Readings for A History of Anthropological Theory

FOURTH EDITION

edited by Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy

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Readings for a history of anthropological theory / edited by Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. 4th ed.

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ISBN 978-1-4426-0656-2 (pbk.)ISBN 978-1-4426-0768-2 (bound)

1. AnthropologyPhilosophy. 2. AnthropologyHistory. I. Erickson, Paul A II. Murphy, Liam Donat

GN33.E74 2013 Suppl. 301.01 C2012-908013-6

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PART ONE
THE EARLY HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY

KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS

EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN

HERBERT SPENCER

CHARLES DARWIN

SIGMUND FREUD

MILE DURKHEIM

MAX WEBER

FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE

PART TWO
THE EARLIER TWENTIETH CENTURY

FRANZ BOAS

ROBERT LOWIE

ALFRED LOUIS KROEBER

MARGARET MEAD

RUTH BENEDICT

CLAUDE LVI-STRAUSS

EDMUND LEACH

MARSHALL SAHLINS

ALFRED REGINALD RADCLIFFE-BROWN

BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI

MAX GLUCKMAN

PART THREE
THE LATER TWENTIETH CENTURY

EDWARD SAPIR

LESLIE WHITE

MARVIN HARRIS

VICTOR TURNER

CLIFFORD GEERTZ

SALLY SLOCUM

SUSAN GAL

EDWARD W. SAID

AKHIL GUPTA AND ARADHANA SHARMA

ERIC R. WOLF

MICHEL FOUCAULT

PIERRE BOURDIEU

JAMES CLIFFORD

GEORGE E. MARCUS AND MICHAEL M.J. FISCHER

SHERRY B. ORTNER

MARGARET LOCK AND NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES

PART FOUR
THE EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

ARJUN APPADURAI

GEORGE E. MARCUS

JONATHAN MARKS

DAVID B. EDWARDS

ALEXANDAR BOKOVIC AND THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN

This fourth edition of Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory reflects the editors shared views on the history of anthropological theory. While we do not, and in fact could not, concur with the views of all the anthropologists and theorists we have cited or included as authors, we consider them sufficiently important and influential to warrant the characterizations they receive in this book. We have conceived the book as a resource for teaching upper-level undergraduate or graduate university courses in the history of anthropology, anthropological theory, or the history of anthropological theory. Many users of the first three editions of the book found them to be useful companions to our textbook A History of Anthropological Theory, now also available in a fourth edition. The order of presentation of theorists in the two books is the same, as is a new grouping of theorists into four parts, including a fourth part on early-twenty-first-century theory, each part with a revised introductory overview.

In this edition, we have omitted four selections: Introduction [African Political Systems] by Meyer Fortes and Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard; Self-Interest and the Social Good: Some Implications of Hagen Gender Imagery by Marilyn Strathern; Are There Histories of Peoples Without Europe? A Review Article by Talal Asad; and Sex on the Brain by Stefan Helmreich and Heather Paxson. At the same time, we have added five selections: Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology by Sally Slocum; Globalization and Postcolonial States by Akhil Gupta and Aradhana Sharma; Developments in US Anthropology since the 1980s, a Supplement: The Reality of Center-Margin Relations, To be Sure, but Changing (and Hopeful) Affinities in These Relations by George Marcus; Counterinsurgency as a Cultural System by David B. Edwards; and Introduction [Other Peoples Anthropologies] by Alexandar Bokovi and Thomas Hylland Eriksen. The result is a net increase of one selection, for a total of 41 selections, altogether more weighted toward contemporary theory. Accompanying these changes are revisions to the Introduction and Conclusion, the addition of a new section on world traditions in anthropology, expanded sections on political economy and postcolonial theory and on public anthropology, and updated lists of suggested further readings.

In addition to these changes, in this edition we have added at the beginning of each selection brief introductions that let students know more precisely what they can expect to learn from the selections. These introductions supplement, but do not replace, the descriptions of the selections in the overviews. Some reviewers of the third edition observed that the glossary of boldfaced terms was something of an unsatisfying mixture of a dictionary and an encyclopedia. Upon reflection, we agreed with these reviewers and in this edition have replaced the boldfaced terms with lists of 10 key words at the beginning of each selection. The criterion we used to select these key words was that, if students knew what they meant, they would then achieve a basic understanding of each selections key themes. Another significant change in this edition is that we have rewritten most of the study questions to make them less straightforward reviews of the selections content and more vehicles for promoting engagement with meaningful issues. We hope that these questions will help students think rather than merely regurgitate. Finally, the essays on Why Theory Matters that debuted in the third edition have been relocated to a web site linked to the University of Toronto Press (www.utpteachingculture.com/teaching-theory). This web site will also support the fourth edition of A History of Anthropological Theory and provide both students and instructors with a variety of pedagogical aids and enhancements. Altogether, these changes probably make the fourth edition of Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory the most changed edition so far.