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This is the first work to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. The authors provide a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, from the cultural theories of Herder, Morgna, and Tylor to the often neglected contributions of the German scholars of the period. The work of early-twentieth century anthropologists such as Boas and Malinowski in the US and Britain, and the sociology of Durkheim and Mauss in France, is examined. The ambiguous relationship between anthropology and national cultures--many of the discipline's founders were migrants or Jews--also receives consideration. The principal focus of the book is on themes characteristic of post First-World-War anthropology, from structural functionalism , via structuralism, to hermeneutics, cultural ecology, and discourse analysis. Each major anthropologist is provided with a capsule biography, and key controversies arecovered, such as the debates on alliance and descent models of kinship, the puzzle of totmism, the problems of neo-Marxism and cultural ecology and the current battles over representations of the ''Other'' and deconstruction. This volume provides a timely, concise,

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Author

Prof. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen

Publisher

Pluto Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781849640244

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Sociology

Rating

3.55 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14