Theory of Anthropology: A Sourcebook

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First published in 1969, this sourcebook makes available a sample of important pieces accumulated in publications. It examines and evaluates the intellectual concerns of anthropology, considering in particular how anthropology can be defined, developed and applied. Contents Introduction: The Plan of the Book Notes on Theory and Non-Theory in Anthropology Part I: Overview 1. On the Concept of Culture • Leslie A. White 2. The Superorganic: Science or Metaphysics • David Kaplan 3. The Difficulties Achievement and Limitations of Social Anthropology • Max Gluckman 4. Social Anthropology: Past and Present • E. E. Evans-Pritchard Part II: Explanation in Social Science 6. On Explanation • John Hospers 7. The “Natural Science Ideal” in the Social Sciences • Lewis White Beck 8. Explanation and Comparative Dynamics in Social Science • John C. Harsanyi 9. The Phenomenological and Naturalistic Approaches to the Social • Leon J. Goldstein 10. Causes, Functions and Cross-Cousin Marriage: An Essay in Anthropological Explanation • Melford E. Spiro 11. Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology • John H. M. Beattie Part III: Methodology 12. Levels of Sociocultural Integration: An Operational Concept • Julian H. Steward 13. Zuñi: Some Observations and Queries • Li An-che 14. A Chinese Phase in Social Anthropology • Maurice Freedman 15. Functionalis Realpolitik and Anthropology, in Underdeveloped Areas • Robert A. Manners 16. Some Criticisms of Cultural Relativism • Paul F. Schmidt 17. Observation and Generalization in Cultural Anthropology • Jessie Bernard 18. Residence Rules • Ward Goodenough Part IV: Functionalism Evolution and History 19. Conflict and Congruence in Anthropological Theory • Linton Freeman A. Structure and Function 20. Limits to Functionalism and Alternatives to It in Anthropology • I. C. Jarvie 21. Functional Analysis of Change • Francesca Cancian 22. Function and Cause • Ronald Philip Dore 23. On Social Structure • S. F. Nadel B. Evolution 24. Evolution: Specific and General • Marshall D. Sahlins 25. Multilinear Evolution: Evolution and Process • Julian H. Steward 26. On the Evolution of Social Stratification and the State • Morton Fried 27. Language and Evolution • Joseph H. Greenberg C. History 28. History and Science in Anthropology • Marc J. Swartz 29. Some Issues in the Logic of Historical Analysis • Ernest Nagel 30. Indian-European Relations in Colonial Latin America • Elman R. Service 31. Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java • Eric R. Wolf Part V: Culture and Personality 32. The Influence of Linguistics on Early Culture and Personality Theory • David F. Aberle 33. Personality and Social Structure • Bert Kaplan 34. Behavioral Evolution and the Emergence of the Self • A. Irving Hallowell 35. Cultural and Cognitive Discontinuity • Ulric Neisser Part VI: Ecology 36. Culture and Environment: The Study of Cultural Ecology • Marshall D. Sahlins 37. The Frontier in History • Owen D. Lattimore 38. Ecologic Relations of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan • Fredrik Barth 39. Tappers and Trappers: Parallel Process in Acculturation • Robert F. Murphy and Julian H. Steward Part VII: Ideology Language and Values 40. Sociological Aspects of the Relation between Language and Culture • Lewis S. Feuer 41. Language Thought and Culture • Paul Henle 42. Linguistic Relativity: The Views of Benjamin Lee Whorf • Max Black 43. Belief and Knowledge • Godfrey Lienhardt 44. Social Beliefs and Individual Thinking in Tribal Society • Max Gluckman 45. On Norms and Values • Judith Blake and Kingsley Davis Part VIII: Structuralism and Formal Analysis 46. Studies in Ethnoscience • William C. Sturtevant 47. The Psychic Unity of Human Groups • Anthony F. C. Wallace 48. The Ethnographic Study of Cognitive Systems • Charles O. Frake 49. Cognition and Componential Analysis: God’s Truth or Hocus-Pocus? • Robbins Burling 50. Some Comments on Formal Analysis of Grammatical and Semantic Systems • Muriel Hammer 51. Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology • Claude Lévi-Strauss 52. Claude Levi-Strauss—Anthropologist and Philosopher • Edmund Leach 53. The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss • Clifford Geertz Selected Bibliography