Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History

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

• | Author: Mark Moberg
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 07, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 440 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138631345
• | ISBN-13: 9781138631342