Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History (5 AT 2012) Readings For a History of Anthropological Theory (4 RH 2013)
Part One: Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory Part One: The Early History of Anthropological Theory
Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism Bourgeois and Proletarians Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Social Organism (1860) Herbert Spencer The Science of Culture Edward Burnett Tylor
Lewis Henry Morgan The Science of Culture (1871) Edward Burnett Tylor Ethnical Periods
Ethnical Periods (1877) Lewis Henry Morgan The Organic Analogy Reconsidered Herbert Spencer
Feuerbach. Opposition of the Karl Marx and Friedrich General Summary and Conclusion Materialist and Idealist Outlook Charles Darwin Engels [The Descent of Man] (1845-1846)
Sigmund Freud [Part] III [Civilization and Its The Foundations of Sociological Thought Discontents]
Introduction [The Elementary Forms What is a Social Fact (1895) Emile Durkheim of the Religious Life] Émile Durkheim
Max Weber The Sociology of Charismatic Excerpts from "The Gift" (1925) Marcel Mauss Authority
Ferdinand de Saussure Nature of the Linguistic Sign and Class, Status, Party (1922) Max Weber Synchronic and Diachronic Law
Part Two: Culture Theory in the Early Twentieth Century Part Two: The Earlier Twentieth Century
Historical Particularism The Methods of Ethnology Franz Boas
The Methods of Ethnology (1920) Franz Boas Conclusion [Primitive Society] Robert Lowie
Eighteen Professions (1915) A.L. Kroeber What Anthropology Is About Alfred Louis Kroeber
The Relation of Habitual Thought and Introduction [Coming of Age in Benjamin L. Whorf Margaret Mead Behavior to Language (1939) Samoa]
The Individual and the Pattern of The Essentials of the Kula (1922) Bronislaw Malinowski Ruth Benedict Culture
On Joking Relationships A.R. Radcliffe-Brown Structuralism and Ecology Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Licence in Ritual (1956) Max Gluckman Structuralism in Social Anthropology Edmund Leach
Introduction [Islands of History] Marshall Sahlins Culture and Personality
Psychological Types in the Cultures of Ruth Benedict Social Structure A.R. Radcliffe-Brown the Southwest (1928)
The Subject, Method, and Scope of Introduction to Coming of Age in Margaret Mead This Inquiry [Argonauts of the Bronislaw Malinowski Samoa (1928) Western Pacific]
Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Max Gluckman Africa
Part Three: Theory at Midcentury Part Three: The Later Twentieth Century
The Unconscious Patterning of The Reemergence of Evolutionary Thought Edward Sapir Behavior in Society
Energy and the Evolution of Culture Leslie White Energy and Tools Leslie White (1943)
The Epistemology of Cultural THe Patrilineal Band (1955) Julian Steward Marvin Harris Materialism
Victor Turner Neomaterialism: Evolutionary, Functionalist, Ecological, and Marxist Symbols in Ndembu Ritual
Thick Description: Toward an Clifford Geertz On the Evolution of Social Stratification Morton H. Fried Interpretive Theory of Culture and the State (1960)
The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Marvin Harris Sally Slocum Cattle (1966) Anthropology
Ritual Regulation of Environmental Language, Gender, and Power: An Relations Among a New Guinea People Roy A. Rappaport Susan Gal Anthropological Review (1967)
Knowing the Oriental Peasantry and Its Problems (1966) Eric Wolf Edward W. Said
Globalization and Postcolonial Akhil Gupta and Aradhana Structuralism States Sharma
Four Winnebago Myths: A Structural Introduction [Europe and the People Claude Levi-Strauss Eric R. Wolf Sketch (1960) Without History]
Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Sherry B. Ortner The Birth of the Asylum Michel Foucault Culture (1974)
The Production and Reproduction Ethnoscience and Cognitive Anthropology Pierre Bourdieu of Legitimate Language
Hanunóo Color Categories (1955) Harold C. Conklin Partial Truths James Clifford
Introduction to Cognitive Anthropology A Crisis of Representation in the George E. Marcus and Michael Stephen A. Tyler (1969) Human Sciences M.J. Fischer
Sherry B. Ortner Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties
A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Margaret Lock and Nancy Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Sheper-Hughes Routines of Discipline and Dissent
Part Four: The Twentieth Century and Beyond Part Four: The Early Twenty-First Century
Disjuncture and Difference in the Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavioral Ecology Arjun Appadurai Global Cultural Economy
Developments in US Anthropology The Morality of the Gene (1975) Edward O. Wilson George E. Marcus since the 1980s, a Supplement
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Eric The Hunting Handicap: Costly Signaling Alden Smith, and Douglas Anthropology and The Bell Curve Jonathan Marks in Human Foraging Strategies (2001) W. Bird
Counterinsurgency as a Cultural Anthropology and Gender David B. Edwards System
Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Introduction [Other People's Alexandar Boskovic and Sally Slocum Anthropology (1975) Anthropologies] Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Interpreting the Origins of Gender Inequality: Conceptual and Historical Eleanor Leacock Problems (1983)
"I Went to Bed with My Own Kind Onceâ€: The Erasure of Desire in the David Valentine Name of Identity (2003)
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
External Boundaries (1966) Mary Douglas
Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (1967) Victor Turner
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Clifford Geertz Cockfight (1973)
Background to Postmodernism
Structures, Habitus, Practices (1980) Pierre Bourdieu
The Incitement to Discourse (1976) Michel Foucault
Post Modernism and Its Critics
Grief and a Headhunter's Rage (1989) Renato Rosaldo
A Tale of Two Pregnancies (1995) Lila Abu-Lughod
The Making of the Maori: Cultural Hanson Invention and Its Logic (1989)
Globalization, Power, and Agency
Disjuncture and Difference in the Arjun Appadurai Global Cultural Economy (1990)
From JÃbaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the Restructuring of Philippe Bourgois Capitalism in El Barrio (1995)
Japanese Food Culture in the Age of Theodore Bestor Mechanical Reproduction (2006)