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) The Science of 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 Engels [The Descent of Man] (1845-1846)

Sigmund Freud [Part] III [ 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

The Methods of Ethnology (1920) Franz Boas Conclusion [Primitive Society]

Eighteen Professions (1915) A.L. Kroeber What 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 (1956) Max Gluckman Structuralism in Edmund Leach

Introduction [Islands of History] Culture and Personality

Psychological Types in the 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 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 : 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: 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 and Gender David B. Edwards System

Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Introduction [Other People's Alexandar Boskovic and Sally Slocum Anthropology (1975) ] 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)

Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (1967)

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)