Anthropological Theory (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kaplan, David; Manners, Robert A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed, how is it to be applied, and how can one confirm it? The editors of Anthropological Theory answer these questions by presenting essays relating to various aspects of anthropological theory. Their selections from widely scattered and often difficult-to-obtain sources present a comprehensive set of writings that describe the current position and issues involved in theory.

The development of field work in anthropology generated a tremendous emphasis on empirical data and research. The plethora of information awaiting collection and the enthusiasm with which the field embraced it so immersed anthropologists that they were unable to relate this new information to the field as a whole. Manners and Kaplan believe that this lack of generalization had a profoundly negative effect upon the discipline. Therefore, they look closely into the relationship between field work and theory in an opening essay and go on to present material that demonstrates the value and the necessity of theory in anthropology. Essays by anthropologists and other social scientists deal with "explanation," evolution, ecology, ideology, structuralism, and a number of other issues reflecting throughout the editors' conviction that anthropology is a science, the goal of which is to produce generalizations about sociocultural phenomena.

The book provides necessary perspective for examining and evaluating the crucial intellectual concerns of modern anthropology and will therefore be important for the work of every anthropologist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351531603
• Artikelnr.: 49261362

Autorenporträt

Robert A. Manners (1913-1996) received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and carried on field work in the Caribbean, among American Indians in the Southwest, and in East Africa. He wrote numerous articles and reviews for anthropological journals as well as many books. He was professor of anthropology, Brandeis University where he started up the department. David Kaplan is professor emeritus of anthropology at Brandeis University. He has contributed articles and reviews to various journals. He has also done field work in Mexico and his areas of specialty include economic anthropology, method and theory, and peasant culture of Mesoamerica.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Plan of the Book
Notes on Theory and Non-Theory in Anthropology
1. On the Concept of Culture
2. The Superorganic: Science or Metaphysics
3. The Difficulties
Achievements
and Limitations of Social Anthropology
4. Social Anthropology: Past and Present
5. Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Comparison
6. On Explanation
7. The Natural Science Ideal in the Social Sciences
8. Explanation and Comparative Dynamics in Social Science
9. The Phenomenological and Naturalistic Approaches to the Social
10. Causes
Functions
and Cross-Cousin Marriage: An Essay in Anthropological Explanation
11. Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology
12. Levels of Sociocultural Integration: An Operational Concept
13. Zufii: Some Observations and Queries
14. A Chinese Phase in Social Anthropology
15. Functionalism
Realpolitik
and Anthropology
in Underdeveloped Areas
16. Some Criticisms of Cultural Relativism
17. Observation and Generalization in Cultural Anthropology
18. Residence Rules
19. Conflict and Congruence in Anthropological Theory
20. Limits to Functionalism and Alternatives to It in Anthropology
21. Functional Analysis of Change
22. Function and Cause
23. On Social Structure
24. Evolution: Specific and General
25. Multilinear Evolution: Evolution and Process
26. On the Evolution of Social Stratification and the State
27. Language and Evolution
28. History and Science in Anthropology
29. Some Issues in the Logic of Historical Analysis
30. Indian-European Relations in Colonial Latin America
31. Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java
32. The Influence of Linguistics on Early Culture and Personality Theory
33. Personality and Social Structure
34. Behavioral Evolution and the Emergence of the Self
35. Cultural and Cognitive Discontinuity
36. Culture and Environment: The Study of Cultural Ecology
37. The Frontier in History
38. Ecologic Relations of Ethnic Groups in Swat
North Pakistan
39. Tappers and Trappers: Parallel Process in Acculturation
PART VII: IDEOLOGY
LANGUAGE
AND VALUES
40. Sociological Aspects of the Relation between Language and Culture
41. Language
Thought
and Culture
42. Linguistic Relativity: The Views of Benjamin Lee Whorf
43. Belief and Knowledge
44. Social Beliefs and Individual Thinking in Tribal Society
45. On Norms and Values
46. Studies in Ethnoscience
47. The Psychic Unity of Human Groups
48. The Ethnographic Study of Cognitive Systems
49. Cognition and Componential Analysis: God's Truth or Hocus-Pocus?
50. Some Comments on Formal Analysis of Grammatical and Semantic Systems
51. Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology
52. Claude Levi-Strauss-Anthropologist and Philosopher
53. The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Levi-Strauss
Selected Bibliography