Anthropological TheoryDavid Kaplan, Robert A. Manners Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed, how is it to be applied, and how can one confirm it? The editors of Anthropological Theory answer these questions by presenting essays relating to various aspects of anthropological theory. Their selections from widely scattered and often difficult-to-obtain sources present a comprehensive set of writings that describe the current position and issues involved in theory.The development of field work in anthropology generated a tremendous emphasis on empirical data and research. The plethora of information awaiting collection and the enthusiasm with which the field embraced it so immersed anthropologists that they were unable to relate this new information to the field as a whole. Manners and Kaplan believe that this lack of generalization had a profoundly negative effect upon the discipline. Therefore, they look closely into the relationship between field work and theory in an opening essay and go on to present material that demonstrates the value and the necessity of theory in anthropology. Essays by anthropologists and other social scientists deal with ""explanation,"" evolution, ecology, ideology, structuralism, and a number of other issues reflecting throughout the editors' conviction that anthropology is a science, the goal of which is to produce generalizations about sociocultural phenomena.The book provides necessary perspective for examining and evaluating the crucial intellectual concerns of modern anthropology and will therefore be important for the work of every anthropologist. |
Contents
The Difficulties Achievements and Limitations of Social | |
Past and Present E E EVANS | |
Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled | |
On Explanation JOHN HOSPERS | |
The Natural Science Ideal in the Social Sciences LEWIS | |
HISTORY 28 History and Science in Anthropology MARC J SWARTZ | |
Some Issues in the Logic of Historical Analysis ERNEST NAGEL | |
IndianEuropean Relations in Colonial Latin America ELMAN R SERVICE | |
Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java ERIC R WOLF | |
The Influence of Linguistics on Early Culture | |
Personality and Social Structure BERT KAPLAN | |
Behavioral Evolution and the Emergence of the Self | |
Cultural and Cognitive Discontinuity ULRIC NEISSER | |
Explanation and Comparative Dynamics in Social | |
The Phenomenological and Naturalistic Approaches | |
Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology | |
An Operational | |
Some Observations and Queries LI ANCHE | |
Functionalism Realpolitik and Anthropology | |
Some Criticisms of Cultural Relativism PAUL F SCHMIDT | |
Observation and Generalization in Cultural | |
Residence Rules WARD H GOODENOUGH | |
Conflict and Congruence in Anthropological Theory | |
Limits to Functionalism and Alternatives to It in Anthropology I C JARVIE | |
Functional Analysis of Change FRANCESCA CANCIAN | |
Function and Cause RONALD PHILIP DORE | |
On Social Structure S F NADEL | |
B EVOLUTION | |
Specific and General MARSHALL D SAHLINS | |
Evolution and Process JULIAN H STEWARD | |
On the Evolution of Social Stratification and the State MORTON H FRIED | |
Language and Evolution JOSEPH H GREENBERG | |
The Study of Cultural Ecology | |
The Frontier in History OWEN LATTIMORE | |
Ecologic Relations of Ethnic Groups in Swat North | |
Parallel Process in Acculturation | |
Sociological Aspects of the Relation between Language | |
Language Thought and Culture PAUL HENLE | |
The Views of Benjamin Lee Whorf | |
Belief and Knowledge GODFREY LIENHARDT | |
Social Beliefs and Individual Thinking in Tribal Society | |
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The Psychic Unity of Human Groups ANTHONY F C | |
The Ethnographic Study of Cognitive Systems CHARLES | |
Gods Truth | |
Some Comments on Formal Analysis of Grammatical | |
Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology | |
Claude LeviStraussAnthropologist and Philosopher | |
On the Work of Claude Levi | |
Selected Bibliography | |
CULTURE AND PERSONALITY | |
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