Mark Moberg

Engaging Anthropological Theory (eBook, ePUB)

A Social and Political History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The updated third edition of this book scrutinizes anew the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists in a lively style, Engaging Anthropological Theory examines the historical context of anthropological ideas and the contested nature of anthropology itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040117910
• Artikelnr.: 72269898

Autorenporträt

Mark Moberg is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Alabama, USA, and has taught anthropological theory over many years. His research centers on labor, Fair Trade, and environmental politics in Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Among his other books are Slipping Away: Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean (2010) and Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies (with Sarah Lyon, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Acknowledgments
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 evolutionary tales 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
References
Index