A history of anthropology / Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Finn Sivert Nielsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

Contributor:

Nielsen, Finn Sivert.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society

Anthropology, culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--History.

Anthropology.

History.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

viii, 207 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.

Summary:

This is the first book to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring such major figures as Morgan and Taylor, it goes on to provide a comprehensive overview of the discipline in the twentieth century. The bulk of the book is devoted to themes and controversies characteristic of post First World War anthropology, from structural functionalism via structuralism to hermeneutics, cultural ecology and discourse analysis. The authors also look at the ambiguous relationship between anthropology and national cultures. This is a timely, concise history of a major intellectual discipline, in engaging and thought-provoking narrative that will appeal to students of the discipline world wide.

Contents:

2. Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman 16

3. Four Founding Fathers 36

4. Expansion and Institutionalisation 54

5. Forms of Change 76

6. The Power of Symbols 96

7. Questioning Authority 111

8. The End of Modernism? 135

9. Reconstructions 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index.

ISBN:

0745313906

074531385X

OCLC:

46793175