Anthropology A Student's Guide to Theory and Method

Name: Anthropology A Student's Guide to Theory and Method
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ISBN: 9780802096128

ISBN-10: 0802096123

ISBN-13: 9780802096128

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Stanley Barrett

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Stanley R. Barrett's Anthropology has long been a premiere sourcebook for students, providing a comprehensive overview of both theory and method in the discipline. In this updated second edition, Barrett's discussion of the origins and evolution of anthropology remains, augmented by sections addressing recent changes and ongoing questions in the field.The second edition of Anthropology adds important new material on questions of culture versus power, Max Weber's thought, the potential of applied anthropology, and the rise of public anthropology, while briefly touching on the anthropology of globalization. As in the previous edition, Barrett remains committed to exploring the impact of…

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List price: $45.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 9/19/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Preface To The First Edition


Preface To The Second Edition



Unleashing the Anthropologist: A Historical Overview


General Anthropology


Social Anthropology


Basic Concepts


Criteria for Ethnographic Quality


Colonialism: The Critical Dimension


Crisis or Opportunity?


Science or Art?


Relationship between Anthropology and Other Disciplines


How to Learn the Fundamentals of a Discipline


Key Terms


Organization of the Book



Building The Discipline



Theory


Evolutionism


Historical Particularism


Structural Functionalism


Conclusion



Method


The Methods Literature


The Fieldwork Situation


Basic Assumptions


Basic Techniques and Related Elements


Human Relations Area Files


The Red field-Lewis Controversy


Conclusion



Patching The Foundation



Theory


Cultural Ecology (and Neo-Evolutionism)


Conflict Theory


Social Action


Conclusion



Method


The Methods Literature


The Fieldwork Situation


Some New Rules of Thumb


Formal Analysis


Case Study One: A West African Utopia


Case Study Two: The Radical Right in Canada


Conclusion



Demolition And Reconstruction



Theory


Structuralism


Postmodernism


Feminist Anthropology


Cultural Feminism versus Deconstructionism


Feminism and Marxism


Feminism and Postmodernism


Conclusion



Method


The Methods Literature


The Fieldwork Situation


Case Study Three: Social Change in Rural Ontario


Case Study Four: Gender and Violence in Corsica


Backlash against Feminist Methodology


Are Women Better Fieldworkers than Men?


Anthropology at Home


Applied Anthropology


Public Anthropology


Conclusion



Analysis And Interpretation



The Last Frontier: How to Analyse Qualitative Data


The Literature on Qualitative Analysis


A Modest Alternative


The Model


The Burst of Insight


Writing


Conclusion



Taming the Anthropologist: The World Ahead


Bibliography


Index