Anthropological Theory An Introductory History

Name: Anthropological Theory An Introductory History
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ISBN: 9780073405223

ISBN-10: 0073405221

ISBN-13: 9780073405223

Edition: 4th 2008

Authors: R. Jon McGee, Richard L. Warms

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A comprehensive and accessible survey of the history of theory in anthropology, this anthology of classic and contemporary readings contains in-depth commentary in introductions and notes to help guide students through excerpts of seminal anthropological works. The commentary provides the background information needed to understand each article, its central concepts, and its relationship to the social and historical context in which it was written. Six of the 45 articles are new to this edition.

Book details

List price: $125.33
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 3/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 684
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



Indicates an article new to this edition Preface Introduction



Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory 19th Century Evolutionism



Herbert Spencer, The Social Organism (1860)



Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, The Science of Culture (1871)



Lewis Henry Morgan, Ethnical Periods (1877)



Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach. Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook (1845-1846) The Foundations of Sociological Thought



ï¿½mile Durkheim, What is a Social Fact? (1895)



ï¿½mile Durkheim, The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class" (1912)



Marcel Mauss, Extracts from The Gift (1924)



Max Weber, Class, Status, Party (1922)