Anthropology in theory : issues in epistemology / edited by Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders ; cover image, Brenda Mayo ; cover design by Simon Levy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levy, Simon.

Mayo, Brenda.

Moore, Henrietta L.

Sanders, Todd.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (613 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2014.

Summary:

This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century. Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and an insightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theory Revised and updated to reflect an on-going strength and diversity of the discipline in recent years, with new readings pointing to innovative directions in the development of anthropological research Identifies crucial concepts that reflect the practice of engaging with theory, particular ways of thinking, analyzing and reflecting that are unique to anthropology Includes excerpts of seminal anthropological works, key classic and contemporary debates in the discipline, and cutting-edge new theorizing Reveals broader debates in the social sciences, including the relationship between society and culture; language and cultural meanings; structure and agency; identities and technologies; subjectivities and trans-locality; and meta-theory, ontology and epistemology.

Contents:

Intro

Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology

Copyright

Contents

Notes on the Editors

General Introduction

Acknowledgments

Anthropology and Epistemology

PART I

Section 1 Culture and Behavior

1 The Aims of Anthropological Research

2 The Concept of Culture in Science

3 Problems and Methods of Approach

4 The Individual and the Pattern of Culture

Section 2 Structure and System

5 Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts

6 On Social Structure

7 Introduction to Political Systems of Highland Burma

8 Social Structure

Section 3 Function and Environment

9 The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis

10 The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology

11 Energy and the Evolution of Culture

12 Ecology, Cultural and Noncultural

Section 4 Methods and Objects

13 Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology

14 Anthropological Data and Social Reality

15 Objectification Objectified

PART II

Section 5 Meanings as Objects of Study

16 Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture

17 Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology

18 Subjectivity and Cultural Critique

Section 6 Language and Method

19 Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology

20 Ordinary Language and Human Action

21 Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science

Section 7 Cognition, Psychology, and Neuroanthropology

22 Towards an Integration of Ethnography, History and the Cognitive Science of Religion

23 Linguistic and Cultural Variables in the Psychology of Numeracy

24 Subjectivity

25 Why the Behavioural Sciences Need the Concept of the Culture-Ready Brain

Section 8 Bodies of Knowledges

26 Knowledge of the Body

27 The End of the Body?

28 Hybridity: Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary

PART III.

Section 9 Coherence and Contingency

29 Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism

30 Introduction to Europe and the People Without History

31 Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution

32 Epochal Structures I: Reconstructing Historical Materialism

33 Structures and the Habitus

Section 10 Universalisms and Domain Terms

34 Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body: Some Anthropological Interventions in a Long Conversation

35 So Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?

36 Global Anxieties: Concept-Metaphors and Pre-theoretical Commitments in Anthropology

Section 11 Perspectives and Their Logics

37 The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism

38 Writing Against Culture

39 Cutting the Network

Section 12 Objectivity, Morality, and Truth

40 The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology

41 Moral Models in Anthropology

42 Postmodernist Anthropology, Subjectivity, and Science: A Modernist Critique

43 Beyond Good and Evil? Questioning the Anthropological Discomfort with Morals

PART IV

Section 13 The Anthropology of Western Modes of Thought

44 The Invention of Women

45 Valorizing the Present: Orientalism, Postcoloniality and the Human Sciences

46 Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism

Section 14 (Re)defining Objects of Inquiry

47 What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies

48 The Near and the Elsewhere

49 Relativism

Section 15 Subjects, Objects, and Affect

50 How to Read the Future: The Yield Curve, Affect, and Financial Prediction

51 Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things

52 Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects: Ruination and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge

Section 16 Imagining Methodologies and Meta-things

53 Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference.

54 What is at Stake - and is not - in the Idea and Practice of Multi-sited Ethnography

55 Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination

56 The End of Anthropology, Again: On the Future of an In/Discipline

Section 17 Anthropologizing Ourselves

57 Participant Objectivation

58 Anthropology of Anthropology? Further Reflections on Reflexivity

59 World Anthropologies: Cosmopolitics for a New Global Scenario in Anthropology

60 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-functioning of Ethnography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 11, 2013).

ISBN:

1-118-78059-0

1-118-78060-4

OCLC:

865333230