Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History (5 AT 2012)
Part One: Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory
Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism
The Social Organism (1860)
Herbert Spencer
Readings For a History of Anthropological Theory (4 RH 2013)
Part One: The Early History of Anthropological Theory
Bourgeois and Proletarians
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Science of Culture
Edward Burnett Tylor
Lewis Henry Morgan
The Science of Culture (1871)
Edward Burnett Tylor
Ethnical Periods
Ethnical Periods (1877)
Lewis Henry Morgan
The Organic Analogy Reconsidered
Herbert Spencer
Feuerbach. Opposition of the
Materialist and Idealist Outlook
(1845-1846)
Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels
General Summary and Conclusion
[The Descent of Man]
Charles Darwin
The Foundations of Sociological Thought
[Part] III [Civilization and Its
Discontents]
Introduction [The Elementary Forms
of the Religious Life]
What is a Social Fact (1895)
Emile Durkheim
Excerpts from "The Gift" (1925)
Marcel Mauss
The Sociology of Charismatic
Authority
Max Weber
Nature of the Linguistic Sign and
Synchronic and Diachronic Law
Class, Status, Party (1922)
Part Two: Culture Theory in the Early Twentieth Century
Historical Particularism
Sigmund Freud
Émile Durkheim
Max Weber
Ferdinand de Saussure
Part Two: The Earlier Twentieth Century
The Methods of Ethnology
Franz Boas
The Methods of Ethnology (1920)
Franz Boas
Conclusion [Primitive Society]
Robert Lowie
Eighteen Professions (1915)
A.L. Kroeber
What Anthropology Is About
Alfred Louis Kroeber
The Relation of Habitual Thought and
Behavior to Language (1939)
Benjamin L. Whorf
Introduction [Coming of Age in
Samoa]
Margaret Mead
The Essentials of the Kula (1922)
Bronislaw Malinowski
The Individual and the Pattern of
Culture
Ruth Benedict
On Joking Relationships
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
Structuralism and Ecology
Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Licence in Ritual (1956)
Max Gluckman
Structuralism in Social Anthropology
Edmund Leach
Introduction [Islands of History]
Marshall Sahlins
Culture and Personality
Psychological Types in the Cultures of
the Southwest (1928)
Ruth Benedict
Social Structure
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
Introduction to Coming of Age in
Samoa (1928)
Margaret Mead
The Subject, Method, and Scope of
This Inquiry [Argonauts of the
Western Pacific]
Bronislaw Malinowski
Rituals of Rebellion in South-East
Africa
Max Gluckman
Part Three: Theory at Midcentury
The Reemergence of Evolutionary Thought
Part Three: The Later Twentieth Century
The Unconscious Patterning of
Behavior in Society
Edward Sapir
Energy and the Evolution of Culture
(1943)
Leslie White
Energy and Tools
Leslie White
THe Patrilineal Band (1955)
Julian Steward
The Epistemology of Cultural
Materialism
Marvin Harris
Victor Turner
Neomaterialism: Evolutionary, Functionalist, Ecological, and Marxist
Symbols in Ndembu Ritual
Thick Description: Toward an
Interpretive Theory of Culture
Clifford Geertz
Marvin Harris
Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in
Anthropology
Sally Slocum
Ritual Regulation of Environmental
Relations Among a New Guinea People
(1967)
Roy A. Rappaport
Language, Gender, and Power: An
Anthropological Review
Susan Gal
Peasantry and Its Problems (1966)
Eric Wolf
On the Evolution of Social Stratification
and the State (1960)
Morton H. Fried
The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred
Cattle (1966)
Knowing the Oriental
Structuralism
Edward W. Said
Globalization and Postcolonial
States
Akhil Gupta and Aradhana
Sharma
Four Winnebago Myths: A Structural
Sketch (1960)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Introduction [Europe and the People
Without History]
Eric R. Wolf
Is Female to Male as Nature Is to
Culture (1974)
Sherry B. Ortner
The Birth of the Asylum
Michel Foucault
The Production and Reproduction
of Legitimate Language
Pierre Bourdieu
Ethnoscience and Cognitive Anthropology
Hanunóo Color Categories (1955)
Harold C. Conklin
Partial Truths
James Clifford
Introduction to Cognitive Anthropology
(1969)
Stephen A. Tyler
A Crisis of Representation in the
Human Sciences
George E. Marcus and Michael
M.J. Fischer
Theory in Anthropology since the
Sixties
A Critical-Interpretive Approach in
Medical Anthropology: Rituals and
Routines of Discipline and Dissent
Part Four: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Sherry B. Ortner
Margaret Lock and Nancy
Sheper-Hughes
Part Four: The Early Twenty-First Century
Disjuncture and Difference in the
Global Cultural Economy
Arjun Appadurai
Developments in US Anthropology
since the 1980s, a Supplement
George E. Marcus
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Eric
The Hunting Handicap: Costly Signaling
Alden Smith, and Douglas
in Human Foraging Strategies (2001)
W. Bird
Anthropology and The Bell Curve
Jonathan Marks
Anthropology and Gender
Counterinsurgency as a Cultural
System
David B. Edwards
Introduction [Other People's
Anthropologies]
Alexandar Boskovic and
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavioral Ecology
The Morality of the Gene (1975)
Edward O. Wilson
Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in
Anthropology (1975)
Sally Slocum
Interpreting the Origins of Gender
Inequality: Conceptual and Historical
Problems (1983)
Eleanor Leacock
"I Went to Bed with My Own Kind
Onceâ€: The Erasure of Desire in the
Name of Identity (2003)
David Valentine
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
External Boundaries (1966)
Mary Douglas
Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (1967)
Victor Turner
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese
Cockfight (1973)
Clifford Geertz
Background to Postmodernism
Structures, Habitus, Practices (1980)
Pierre Bourdieu
The Incitement to Discourse (1976)
Michel Foucault
Post Modernism and Its Critics
Grief and a Headhunter's Rage (1989)
Renato Rosaldo
A Tale of Two Pregnancies (1995)
Lila Abu-Lughod
The Making of the Maori: Cultural
Invention and Its Logic (1989)
Hanson
Globalization, Power, and Agency
Disjuncture and Difference in the
Global Cultural Economy (1990)
Arjun Appadurai
From JÃbaro to Crack Dealer:
Confronting the Restructuring of
Capitalism in El Barrio (1995)
Philippe Bourgois
Japanese Food Culture in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction (2006)
Theodore Bestor