A History of Anthropology
- ISBN-10
- 0745313906
- ISBN-13
- 9780745313900
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-10-20
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Authors
- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen
Description
This is the first book to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring major figures such as Morgan and Tylor, it goes on to provide a comprehensive overview of the discipline in the twentieth century.The bulk of the book is devoted to themes and controversies characteristic of post First World War anthropology, from structural functionalism via structuralism to hermeneutics, cultural ecology, discourse analysis and, most recently, globalization and postmodernism. The authors emphasise throughout the need to see changes in the discipline in a wider social, political and intellectual context. This is a timely, concise history of a major discipline, in an engaging and thought-provoking narrative, that will appeal to students of anthropology worldwide.
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