Engaging anthropological theory : a social and political history / Mark Moberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moberg, Mark, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--History.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 470 pages) ; illustrations, maps

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2025.

Biography/History:

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).

Contents:

Of politics and paradigms

Claims and critiques of anthropological knowledge

Anthropology before anthropologists

Theory and practice to change the world

Heirs to order and progress

Spencer, Darwin, and evolutionary tales for our time

The Boasian revolution

Culture and psychology

Functionalism, the pure and the hyphenated

Anti-structure and the collapse of empire

Evolution redux

Contemporary materialist and ecological approaches

Symbols, structures, and the "web of significance"

Postmodern political economy and sensibilities

The contemporary anthropological moment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 02, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Moberg, Mark, 1959- Engaging anthropological theory

ISBN:

9781003411680

1003411681

9781040117910

1040117910

9781040117903

1040117902

Publisher Number:

90101283272

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