Alan Barnard

History and Theory in Anthropology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9781108837958
• ISBN-10: 1108837956
• Artikelnr.: 61504409

Autorenporträt

Alan Barnard is Emeritus Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa, University of Edinburgh. His many books include Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa, Social Anthropology and Human Origins, Genesis of Symbolic Thought, Language in Prehistory, and Bushmen: Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers and Their Descendants, all published by Cambridge University Press. In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Visions of Anthropology
2. Precursors
3. Changing perspectives on evolution
4. Diffusionist and culture-area theories
5. Functionalism and structural-functionalism
6. Action and process
7. Marxist perspectives
8. From relativism to cognitive science
9. Structuralism, from linguistics to Anthropology
10. Poststructuralists and feminists
11. Mavericks
12. Interpretive approaches
13. Postmodernism and its aftermath
14. Conclusions
Appendix 1: Dates of birth and death
Appendix 2: Glossary
References
Index.