A history of anthropology / Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Finn Sivert Nielsen.
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TextSeries: Anthropology, culture, and societyPublication details: London ; Sterling : Pluto Press, 2001.Description: viii, 207 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 9780745313856 (pbk.)
- 074531385X (pbk.)
- 306.09 21
- GN17 .E75 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index.
1. Beginnings -- 2. Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman -- 3. Four founding fathers -- 4. Expansion and institutionalisation -- 5. Forms of change -- 6. The power of symbols -- 7. Questioning authority -- 8. The end of modernism? -- 9. Reconstructions.
"This book covers the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring major figures such as Morgan and Tylor, 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, discourse analysis and, most recently, globalization and postmodernism. The authors emphasise throughout the need to see changes in the discipline in a wider social, political and intellectual context."--BOOK JACKET.
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