Anthropology in Theory - Issues in Epistemology

Informationen zum Autor Henrietta L. Moore is the William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Her most recent book is Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions (2011).Todd Sanders is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and has worked in Africa for two decades. His books include Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa (2004) and Beyond Bodies: Rainmaking and Sense Making in Tanzania (2008). Klappentext The first edition of Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology garnered widespread praise for its comprehensive presentation of issues relating to the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century. The new edition includes a variety of revisions and updates to reflect an on-going resurgence of the discipline, and features several new readings that point to innovative theoretical directions in the development of anthropological theory in recent years.While tracing the course of anthropological theory, readings cover a broad range of topics that include excerpts and central concepts of seminal anthropological works, key classic and contemporary debates in the discipline, and cutting-edge new theorizing. Also revealed are the ways anthropological projects continue to shape broader debates in the social sciences--everything from society and culture, structure and agency, identities and technologies, subjectivities and trans-locality to meta-theory, ontology, and epistemology. At once enlightening and accessible, Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, 2nd Edition, offers invaluable insights into the theoretical assumptions underlying the development of modern cultural anthropology. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the Editors xGeneral Introduction xiHenrietta L. Moore and Todd SandersAcknowledgments xviAnthropology and Epistemology 1Henrietta L. Moore and Todd SandersPART I 19Section 1 Culture and Behavior 211 The Aims of Anthropological Research 22Franz Boas2 The Concept of Culture in Science 32A. L. Kroeber3 Problems and Methods of Approach 37Gregory Bateson4 The Individual and the Pattern of Culture 43Ruth BenedictSection 2 Structure and System 535 Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts 54Emile Durkheim6 On Social Structure 64A. R. Radcliffe-Brown7 Introduction to Political Systems of Highland Burma 70E. R. Leach8 Social Structure 78Claude Lévi-StraussSection 3 Function and Environment 899 The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis 90Bronislaw Malinowski10 The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology 102Julian H. Steward11 Energy and the Evolution of Culture 109Leslie A. White12 Ecology, Cultural and Noncultural 123Andrew P. Vayda and Roy A. RappaportSection 4 Methods and Objects 12913 Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology 130J. H. M. Beattie14 Anthropological Data and Social Reality 141Ladislav Holy and Milan Stuchlik15 Objectification Objectified 151Pierre BourdieuPART II 163Section 5 Meanings as Objects of Study 16516 Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture 166Clifford Geertz17 Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology 173Talal Asad18 Subjectivity and Cultural Critique 186Sherry B. OrtnerSection 6 Language and Method 19119 Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology 192Claude Lévi-Strauss20 Ordinary Language and Human Action 204Malcolm Crick21 Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science 210Maurice BlochSection 7 Cognition, Psychology, and Neuroanthropology 22122 Towards an Integration of Ethnography, Histor...

List of contents

Notes on the Editors x
 
General Introduction xi
Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders
 
Acknowledgments xvi
 
Anthropology and Epistemology 1
Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders
 
PART I 19
 
Section 1 Culture and Behavior 21
 
1 The Aims of Anthropological Research 22
Franz Boas
 
2 The Concept of Culture in Science 32
A. L. Kroeber
 
3 Problems and Methods of Approach 37
Gregory Bateson
 
4 The Individual and the Pattern of Culture 43
Ruth Benedict
 
Section 2 Structure and System 53
 
5 Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts 54
Emile Durkheim
 
6 On Social Structure 64
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
 
7 Introduction to Political Systems of Highland Burma 70
E. R. Leach
 
8 Social Structure 78
Claude Lévi-Strauss
 
Section 3 Function and Environment 89
 
9 The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis 90
Bronislaw Malinowski
 
10 The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology 102
Julian H. Steward
 
11 Energy and the Evolution of Culture 109
Leslie A. White
 
12 Ecology, Cultural and Noncultural 123
Andrew P. Vayda and Roy A. Rappaport
 
Section 4 Methods and Objects 129
 
13 Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology 130
J. H. M. Beattie
 
14 Anthropological Data and Social Reality 141
Ladislav Holy and Milan Stuchlik
 
15 Objectification Objectified 151
Pierre Bourdieu
 
PART II 163
 
Section 5 Meanings as Objects of Study 165
 
16 Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture 166
Clifford Geertz
 
17 Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology 173
Talal Asad
 
18 Subjectivity and Cultural Critique 186
Sherry B. Ortner
 
Section 6 Language and Method 191
 
19 Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology 192
Claude Lévi-Strauss
 
20 Ordinary Language and Human Action 204
Malcolm Crick
 
21 Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science 210
Maurice Bloch
 
Section 7 Cognition, Psychology, and Neuroanthropology 221
 
22 Towards an Integration of Ethnography, History and the Cognitive Science of Religion 222
Harvey Whitehouse
 
23 Linguistic and Cultural Variables in the Psychology of Numeracy 226
Charles Stafford
 
24 Subjectivity 231
T. M. Luhrmann
 
25 Why the Behavioural Sciences Need the Concept of the Culture-Ready Brain 236
Charles Whitehead
 
Section 8 Bodies of Knowledges 245
 
26 Knowledge of the Body 246
Michael Jackson
 
27 The End of the Body? 260
Emily Martin
 
28 Hybridity: Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary 276
Lesley Sharp
 
PART III 283
 
Section 9 Coherence and Contingency 285
 
29 Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism 286
Max Weber
 
30 Introduction to Europe and the People Without History 293
Eric R. Wolf
 
31 Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution 308
Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff
 
32 Epochal Structures I: Reconstructing Historical Materialism 322
Donald L. Donham
 
33 Structures and the Habitus 332
Pierre Bourdieu
 
Section 10 Universalisms and Domain Terms 343
 
34 Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body: Some Anthropological Interventions in a Long Conversation 344
Michael Lambek
 
35 So Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? 357
Sherry B. Ortner
 
36 Global Anxieties: Concept-Metaphors and Pre-theoretical Commitments in Anthropology 363
Henrietta L. Moore
 
Section 11 Perspectives and Their Logics 377
 
37 The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism 378
Robert

Report

"This volume has few precedents and no rival. It is of singular breadth. The editors are at once discriminating and judicious in their selections: no playing favorites here. Their introductory essays are masterful--accessible enough that the uninitiated can engage them but also so well informed and argued that even the professional can learn from them. It offers a record of anthropological theory past and present and manages to point as well to possible theoretical futures. By illustration and by design, it offers an answer to the question that is as common as it is distressing: "Just what is anthropology, anyway?" It's an indispensable pedagogical resource." - James D. Faubion, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University, USA
 
"A thoughtfully selected, persuasively organized and refreshingly original collection that illuminates the generative assumptions, debates and practices from which anthropological knowledge has been and continues to be produced." - Mary Hancock, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Product details

• Authors: Moore, Henrietta Moore, Henrietta L Moore, Henrietta L. Moore, Henrietta L. (London School of Economics an Moore, Henrietta L. Sanders Moore, Hl Moore, Sanders, Todd Sanders
• Assisted by: Henrietta L. Moore (Editor), Henrietta L. (London School of Economics and Political Science) Moore (Editor), Moore Henrietta L. (Editor), Todd Sanders (Editor), Todd (University of Toronto) Sanders (Editor), Sanders Todd (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2014
• EAN: 9780470673355
• ISBN: 978-0-470-67335-5
• No. of pages: 624
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Anthropologie, Anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie, Anthropological Theory & Methods/Ethnography, Anthropologie / Theorie u. Methoden, Ethnographie