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This text traces the history of anthropology and anthropological theory, and argues for the use of a scientific, behavioural-based approach to the understanding of human culture known as cultural materialism.

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Enlightenment; reaction and recovery - the early 19th century; rise of racial determinism; Spencerism; evolutionism - methods; the evolutionists - results; dialectical materialism; historical particularism - Boas; the Boasian milieu; the ethnographic basis of particularism; Kroeber; Lowie; diffusionism; culture and personality - pre-Freudian; culture and personality - Freudian; culture and personality - new directions; French structuralism; British social anthropology; emics, etics and the new ethnography; statistical survey and the nomothetic revival; cultural materialism - general evolution; cultural materialism - cultural ecology.

The Rise of Anthropological Theory

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      Publisher: AltaMira Press
      Publication Date: 8/14/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780759101333, 978-0759101333
      ISBN10: 0759101337

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text traces the history of anthropology and anthropological theory, and argues for the use of a scientific, behavioural-based approach to the understanding of human culture known as cultural materialism.

      Table of Contents
      Enlightenment; reaction and recovery - the early 19th century; rise of racial determinism; Spencerism; evolutionism - methods; the evolutionists - results; dialectical materialism; historical particularism - Boas; the Boasian milieu; the ethnographic basis of particularism; Kroeber; Lowie; diffusionism; culture and personality - pre-Freudian; culture and personality - Freudian; culture and personality - new directions; French structuralism; British social anthropology; emics, etics and the new ethnography; statistical survey and the nomothetic revival; cultural materialism - general evolution; cultural materialism - cultural ecology.

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