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Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory
About this book
This book presents an overview of important currents of thought in social and cultural anthropology, from the 19th century to the present. It introduces readers to the origins, context and continuing relevance of a fascinating and exciting kaleidoscope of ideas that have transformed the humanities and social sciences, and the way we understand ourselves and the societies we live in today.
Each chapter provides a thorough yet engaging introduction to a particular theoretical school, style or conceptual issue. Together they build up to a detailed and comprehensive critical introduction to the most salient areas of the field. The introduction reflects on the substantive themes which tie the chapters together and on what the very notions of 'theory' and 'theoretical school' bring to our understanding of anthropology as a discipline.
The book tracks a core lecture series given at Cambridge University and is essential reading for all undergraduate students undertaking a course on anthropological theory or the history of anthropological thought. It will also be useful more broadly for students of social and cultural anthropology, sociology, human geography and cognate disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Introduction: Echoes of a conversation
- 1 Severed roots: Evolutionism, diffusionism and (structural–)functionalism
- 2 Structuralism
- 3 Marxism and neo–Marxism
- 4 From transactionalism to practice theory
- 5 Anthropology and history
- 6 From the extended–case method to multi–sited ethnography (and back)
- 7 Cognitive anthropology as epistemological critique
- 8 Interpretive cultural anthropology: Geertz and his ‘writing–culture’ criticsis
- 9 The Frankfurt School, critical theory and anthropology
- 10 The anthropological lives of Michel Foucault
- 11 From ‘the body’ to ‘embodiment’, with help from phenomenology
- 12 Feminist anthropology and the question of gender
- 13 No actor, no network, no theory
- 14 The ontological turn
- 15 Persons and partible persons
- Index