Anthropology in Theory : Issues in Epistemology,9780631229155

Anthropology in Theory : Issues in Epistemology

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ISBN13: 9780631229155
ISBN10: 0631229159
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-09-12
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The 57 articles collected in this volume---together with the editors' introduction---provide an overview of the key debates in anthropological theory over the past century. Provides the most comprehensive selection of readings and insightful overview of anthropological theory available Identifies crucial conceptual signposts and new theoretical directions for the discipline Discusses broader debates in the social sciences: debates about society and culture; structure and agency; identities and technologies; subjectivities and translocality; and meta-theory, ontology and epistemology

Author Biography

Henrietta L. Moore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her publications include: Space, Text and Gender (Cambridge, 1986; Guilford, 1996), Feminism and Anthropology (Polity, 1988), A Passion for Difference (Polity, 1994), Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990 (with Megan Vaughan; James Currey, 1994), The Future of Anthropological Knowledge (1996), Anthropological Theory Today (Polity, 1999), Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa (with Todd Sanders and B. Kaare, 1999), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa (with Todd Sanders, 2001), and The Subject of Anthropology: Essays on Lacan and Lévi-Strauss (Polity, 2005).

Todd Sanders is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His publications include: Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa (with H. L. Moore and B. Kaare, 1999), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa (with H. L. Moore, 2001), and Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order (with Harry West, 2003).

Table of Contents

Notes on the Editors x
General Introduction xi
Henrietta L. Moore
Todd Sanders
Acknowledgments xvii
Anthropology and Epistemology 1(22)
Henrietta L. Moore
Todd Sanders
PART I
23(210)
Culture and Behavior
25(32)
The Aims of Anthropological Research
26(10)
Franz Boas
The Concept of Culture in Science
36(5)
A. L. Kroeber
Problems and Methods of Approach
41(6)
Gregory Bateson
Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts
47(10)
Emile Durkheim
Society and Social Patterns
57(30)
The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology
58(10)
Franz Boas
Anthropology and Sociology
68(9)
Edward Sapir
The Individual and the Pattern of Culture
77(10)
Ruth Benedict
Function and Environment
87(34)
The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis
88(12)
Bronislaw Malinowski
The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology
100(7)
Julian H. Steward
Energy and the Evolution of Culture
107(14)
Leslie A. White
Structure and System
121(26)
On Social Structure
122(6)
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
Introduction to Political Systems of Highland Burma
128(8)
E. R. Leach
Social Structure
136(11)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Methods and Objects
147(32)
Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology
148(11)
J. H. M. Beattie
Anthropological Data and Social Reality
159(10)
Ladislav Holy
Milan Stuchlik
Objectification Objectified
169(10)
Pierre Bourdieu
Biology and Ontogeny
179(54)
Becoming Persons: Consciousness and Sociality in Human Evolution
180(13)
Tim Ingold
Customs and Cultures in Animals and Humans: Neurobiological and Evolutionary Considerations
193(11)
Kathleen R. Gibson
Introduction to Mind, Materiality and History
204(16)
Christina Toren
The Development of Meaning: Ontogeny and Culture
220(13)
A. F. Robertson
PART II
233(124)
Meanings as Objects of Study
235(32)
Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
236(8)
Clifford Geertz
Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology
244(14)
Talal Asad
Anthropology as Interpretive Quest
258(9)
Roger M. Keesing
Language and Method
267(32)
Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology
268(13)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Ordinary Language and Human Action
281(7)
Malcolm Crick
Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science
288(11)
Maurice Bloch
Thinking and Believing
299(22)
Introduction to Belief, Language, and Experience
300(5)
Rodney Needham
The Antinomies
305(6)
Stephen A. Tyler
Anthropology and Psychology: Towards an Epidemiology of Representations
311(10)
Dan Sperber
Bodies of Knowledges
321(36)
Knowledge of the Body
322(14)
Michael Jackson
The End of the Body?
336(16)
Emily Martin
The Body of the Condemned
352(5)
Michel Foucault
PART III
357(180)
Coherence and Contingency
359(64)
Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism
360(7)
Max Weber
Introduction to Europe and the People without History
367(15)
Eric R. Wolf
Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution
382(15)
Jean Comaroff
John Comaroff
Epochal Structures I: Reconstructing Historical Materialism
397(10)
Donald L. Donham
Structures and the Habitus
407(10)
Pierre Bourdieu
Two Lectures
417(6)
Michel Foucault
Universalisms and Domain Terms
423(34)
Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body: Some Anthropological Interventions in a Long Conversation
424(13)
Michael Lambek
So Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?
437(6)
Sherry B. Ortner
Global Anxieties: Concept-metaphors and Pre-theoretical Commitments in Anthropology
443(14)
Henrietta L. Moore
Perspectives and their Logics
457(36)
The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism
458(8)
Robert J. Thornton
Writing Against Culture
466(14)
Lila Abu-Lughod
Cutting the Network
480(13)
Marilyn Strathern
Objectivity, Morality, and Truth
493(44)
The ``Objectivity'' of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy
494(12)
Max Weber
The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology
506(7)
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Moral Models in Anthropology
513(10)
Roy D'Andrade
Postmodernist Anthropology, Subjectivity, and Science: A Modernist Critique
523(14)
Melford E. Spiro
PART IV
537(97)
The Anthropology of Western Modes of Thought
539(28)
The Invention of Women
540(6)
Oyeronke Oyewumi
Valorizing the Present: Orientalism, Postcoloniality and the Human Sciences
546(6)
Vivek Dhareshwar
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism
552(15)
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
(Re)defining Objects of Enquiry
567(40)
Culture, Genuine and Spurious: The Politics of Indianness in the Vaupes, Colombia
568(19)
Jean E. Jackson
The Near and the Elsewhere
587(11)
Marc Auge
Relativism
598(9)
Bruno Latour
Imagining Methodologies and Meta-things
607(27)
Beyond ``Culture'': Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference
608(10)
Akhil Gupta
James Ferguson
What is at Stake -- and is not -- in the Idea and Practice of Multi-sited Ethnography
618(4)
George E. Marcus
Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination
622(12)
Arjun Appadurai
Index 634

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