Engaging anthropological theory : a social and political history /
Moberg, Mark, 1959-
Engaging anthropological theory : a social and political history / Mark Moberg. - Second Edition, Fully revised Second Edition. - xiv, 440 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
"First edition published by Routledge 2012"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Of politics and paradigms -- 2. Claims and critiques of anthropological knowledge -- 3. Anthropology before anthropologists -- 4. Theory and practice to change the world -- 5. Heirs to order and progress -- 6. Spencer, Darwin, and the evolutionary parables for our time -- 7. The Boasian Revolution -- 8. Culture and Psychology -- 9. Functionalism, the pure and the hyphenated -- 10. Anti-structure and the collapse of empire -- 11. Evolution redux -- 12. Contemporary materialist and ecological approaches -- 13. Symbols, structures, and the "Web of Significance" -- 14. Postmodern political economy and sensibilities -- 15. The contemporary anthropological moment.
9781138631342
2018015180
Anthropology--Philosophy.
Anthropology--History.
Anthropology--Methodology.
GN33 / .M575 2019
301.01 / MOE
Engaging anthropological theory : a social and political history / Mark Moberg. - Second Edition, Fully revised Second Edition. - xiv, 440 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
"First edition published by Routledge 2012"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Of politics and paradigms -- 2. Claims and critiques of anthropological knowledge -- 3. Anthropology before anthropologists -- 4. Theory and practice to change the world -- 5. Heirs to order and progress -- 6. Spencer, Darwin, and the evolutionary parables for our time -- 7. The Boasian Revolution -- 8. Culture and Psychology -- 9. Functionalism, the pure and the hyphenated -- 10. Anti-structure and the collapse of empire -- 11. Evolution redux -- 12. Contemporary materialist and ecological approaches -- 13. Symbols, structures, and the "Web of Significance" -- 14. Postmodern political economy and sensibilities -- 15. The contemporary anthropological moment.
9781138631342
2018015180
Anthropology--Philosophy.
Anthropology--History.
Anthropology--Methodology.
GN33 / .M575 2019
301.01 / MOE