Candea Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-38825-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

From the inception of the discipline in the 19th century, great ideas have always inspired and guided anthropologists when conducting their research amongst people all over the world. Such great ideas are born from the social and political contexts of their creators, and the challenge for scholars of anthropology today is to understand the value these ideas bring to modern fields of enquiry.

Each chapter in this textbook has been written to provide a thorough yet engaging introduction to one particular theoretical school and style. These chapters build up to a coherent and well-organised picture of the history and contemporary shape of anthropological theory. Beginning with an introduction which reflects on the substantive themes which tie the chapters together, the book ends with an afterword by Marilyn Strathern reflecting on broader themes in the use of history and anthropological concepts.

Presenting a detailed and comprehensive critical introduction to the most salient areas of the field, this book is essential reading for all undergraduate students undertaking a course on anthropological theory or the history of anthropological thought. It will also be useful reading for students of social and cultural anthropology, sociology, and human geography, and those enrolled in an anthropology course during their postgraduate degree with no background in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Candea, Matei

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Echoes of a conversation Matei Candea

1. Severed roots: Evolutionism, Diffusionism and (structural-)functionalism Matei Candea

2. Structuralism Ruper Stasch

3. Marxism and Neo-Marxism Caroline Humphrey

4. From Transactionalism to Practice Theory David Sneath

5. Anthropology and History Susan Bayly

6. From the Extended-Case Method to Multi-Sited Ethnography (and Back) Harry Englund

7. Cognitive anthropology as epistemological critique Richard D.G. Irvine

8. Interpretive Cultural Anthropology: Geertz and his ‘Writing-Culture’ Critics James Laidlaw

9. The Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and Anthropology Christos Lynteris

10. The Anthropological Lives of Michel Foucault James Laidlaw

11. From ‘the body’ to ‘embodiment’, with help from phenomenology Maryon McDonald

12. Feminist Anthropology and the Question of Gender Jessica Johnson

13. No actor, no network, no theory: Bruno Latour’s Anthropology of the Moderns Matei Candea

14. The Ontological Turn: School or Style? Paolo Heywood

15. Persons and partible persons Marilyn Strathern

Über Autor(innen)

Matei Candea is a Lecturer in the Division of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a fellow of King's College, and Director of Studies for the college.