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Contents Cover Title Page Copyright What is Anthropology? What is “Primitive”? Studying People Anthropology’s Big Problem The Other The Changing Problem The Origins of Anthropology The Founding Fathers The Hidden Agenda The Age of Reconnaissance “Fidelity to the Old” The Question of Human Rights The Jesuit Relations Major Trends in Western Thought The Continuity of Tradition The Derived Minor Trends Imperialism The Complicity of Anthropology Violations of Ethics Back to the Roots The Indispensable Primitive Speculating on the Invention What Came First? Living Relics Seen from the Armchair Theories of Evolutionism Integrating the Biological and Social The Theory of Diffusionism The Race Swindle Field Studies The Anthropological Tree Physical Anthropology Polygenesis vs. Monogenesis Human Ecology and Genetics The Rise of Sociobiology A Refocus of Race in Gene Theory Other Links with Early Anthropology Archaeology and Material Culture Anthropological Linguistics Social or Cultural Anthropology What is Culture? Increasing Specializations The Bedrock of Ethnography Writing the Exotic Franz Boas Bronislaw Malinowski Fieldwork Human Ecology in Fieldwork Ecological Anthropology The Question of Economy The Potlatch Ceremony The “Big Men” of New Guinea The Kula Exchange Economic Anthropology Exchange and Trading Networks The Formalist-Substantivist Debate Marxist Anthropology Marxism’s Evolutionary View The Household Unit The Forms of Family The Marriage Links Marriage Contract Payments The Study of Kinship Kinship Codes Classificatory Kinship Fictive Kinship Descent Theory Marriage and Residence Rules The Idiom of Kinship What’s the “Use” of Kinship? Alliance Theory and Incest Taboo Structures in Mind Forms of Elementary Structures Does Alliance Theory Work? Politics and Law Further Examples … The Terminological Approach Political Anthropology Age Grade Societies Synchronic vs. Diachronic Views Other Social Stratifications Transacting Identity Problems of Ethnicity Colonialism Anti-capitalist Anthropology Anthropology of Law Mechanisms for Resolving Disputes Religion Shamanism and Cargo Cults Sacred and Profane The Anthropology of Magic The Debate on Belief Examining Ritual Rites of Passage The Study of Myth Claude Lévi-Strauss Binary Oppositions and Structure Symbols and Communication Symbols and the Social Process Actor, Message and Code Symbolism and New Perspectives Anthropology of Art Visual Anthropology Disappearing World A New Branch or an Old Root? Writing Up the Field Writing in the Present Auto-Anthropology The Dual/Duel of Tepoztlan Tepoztlan Revisited Is Anthropology a Science? A Pretended Science The Indians are Off the Reservation Who Speaks for the Indian? White Man as God The Myth of Authority Event Horizon Self-critical Anthropology A Hero of Anthropology The Fall of the Mead Myth Observers Observed Feet of Clay The Issue of Self-projection Writing Culture and Postmodernism Postmodern Paralysis Women in Anthropology Kinship Ties of Anthropologists The Field Helpmate Feminist Anthropology Situating Feminist Anthropology The Virgin People The Yanomamo Scandal Creating Civil War Whither Anthropology? Further Reading About the Author and Artist Acknowledgements Other Introducing Books … Index Published by Icon Books Ltd, Omnibus Business Centre, 39-41 North Road, London N7 9DP Email: [email protected] www.introducingbooks.com ISBN: 978-184831-168-8 Text copyright © 2013 Icon Books Ltd Merryl Wyn-Davis Illustrations copyright © 2013 Icon Books Ltd The author and illustrator has asserted their moral rights Originating editor: Richard Appignanesi No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, or by any means, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. What is Anthropology? The word “anthropology” derives from the Greek and literally means “the study of man” or “the science of man”. But the “man” of anthropology was a special kind of “man”. HISTORICALLY, ANTHROPOLOGY WAS THE “STUDY OF PRIMITIVE MAN”. I AM ANAZASI. THEY CALLED ME A PRIMITIVE MAN. What is “Primitive”? In The Mind of Primitive Man (1938), Franz Boas (1858–1942), founder of American Cultural Anthropology, told us just who are the primitives. PRIMITIVE ARE THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE FORMS OF LIFE ARE SIMPLE AND UNIFORM, AND THE CONTENTS AND FORM OF WHOSE CULTURE ARE MEAGRE AND INTELLECTUALLY INCONSISTENT. A BETTER DEFINITION OF THE SUBJECT IS THE STANDARD ANTHROPOLOGICAL JOKE – “THE STUDY OF MAN EMBRACING WOMAN”.
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