* indicates new to the sixth edition
Part I: Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory
Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism
1. Herbert Spencer: The Social Organism (1860)
2. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor: The Science of Culture (1871)
3. Lewis Henry Morgan: Ethnical Periods (1877)
4. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Feuerbach: Opposition of the
Materialist and Idealist Outlook (1846)
The Foundations of Sociological Thought
5. Émile Durkheim: What Is a Social Fact? (1895)
6. Marcel Mauss: Excerpts from The Gift (1925)
7. Max Weber: Class, Status, Party (1922)
Part II: Culture Theory in the Early Twentieth Century
The Boasians
8. Franz Boas: The Methods of Ethnology (1920)
*9. A. L. Kroeber: On the Principle of Order in Civilization as
Exemplified by Changes of Fashion
(1919)
*10. Ruth Benedict: The Science Of Custom: The Bearing of
Anthropology on Contemporary Thought (1929)
11. Margaret Mead: Introduction to Coming of Age in Samoa
(1928)
12. Benjamin L. Whorf: The Relation of Habitual Thought and
Behavior to Language (1941)
Functionalism
13. Bronislaw Malinowski: The Essentials of the Kula (1922)
14. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown: On Joking Relationships (1940)
15. Max Gluckman: The Licence in Ritual (1956)
Part III: Theory At Mid-Century
The Reemergence of Evolutionary Thought
16. Leslie White: Energy and the Evolution of Culture (1943)
17. Julian Steward: The Patrilineal Band (1955)
18. Morton H. Fried: On the Evolution of Social Stratification and
the State (1960)
Neomaterialism
19. Marvin Harris: The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle
(1966)
20. Eric Wolf: Peasantry and Its Problems (1966)
Structure, Language, and Cognition
21. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Four Winnebago Myths: A Structural Sketch
(1960)
22. Harold C. Conklin: Hanunóo Color Categories (1955)
*23. Eugene Hunn: The Tenejapa Tzeltal Version of the Animal
Kingdom (1975)
Part IV: Late Twentieth Century Developments
Sociobiology and Behavioral Ecology
24. Edward O. Wilson: The Morality of the Gene (1975)
25. Rebecca Bliege Bird, Eric Alden Smith, and Douglas W. Bird: The
Hunting Handicap: Costly Signaling in Human Foraging Strategies
(2001)
Feminist Anthropology
26. Sally Slocum: Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology
(1975)
27. Eleanor Leacock: Interpreting the Origins of Gender Inequality:
Conceptual and Historical Problems (1983)
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
28. Mary Douglas: External Boundaries (1966)
29. Victor Turner: Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (1967)
30. Clifford Geertz: Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
(1972)
Background to Postmodernism
31. Pierre Bourdieu: Structures, Habitus, Practices (1980)
32. Michel Foucault: The Incitement to Discourse (1976)
Postmodernism
33. Renato Rosaldo: Grief and a Headhunters Rage (1989)
34. Allan Hanson: The Making of the Maori: Cultural Invention and
Its Logic (1989)
Part V: Trends in Contemporary Anthropology
Gender
35. Lila Abu-Lughod: A Tale of Two Pregnancies (1995)
36. David Valentine: ‘I Went to Bed with My Own Kind Once’: The
Erasure of Desire in the Name of Identity (2003)
*37. HollyWardlow: Anger, Economy, and Female Agency:
Problematizing "Prostitution" and "Sex Work" among the Huli of
Papua New Guinea (2004)
Globalization
38. Arjun Appadurai: Disjuncture and the Difference in the Global
Cultural Economy (1990)
39. Theodore Bestor: Kaiten-Zushi and Konbini: Japanese Food
Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2006)
*40. Jonathan Friedman and Kajsa Ekholm Friedman: Globalization as
a Discourse of Hegemonic Crisis: A Global Systemic Analysis
(2013)
Agency and Structure
41. Philippe Bourgois: From Jíbaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the
Restructuring of Capitalism in El Barrio (1995)
*42. Sherry Ortner: Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency
(2006)
*43. Ruth Gomberg Muñoz: Willing to Work: Agency and Vulnerability
in an Undocumented Immigrant Network (2010)
R. Jon McGee is professor of anthropology at Texas State
University. He is author or editor of numerous books, including
Watching Lacandan Maya Lives, Theory in Social and Cultural
Anthropology: An Encyclopedia (edited with Richard L. Warms), and
Sacred Realms: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion (co-edited
with Warms and James Garber), now in its second edition.
Richard L. Warms is professor of anthropology at Texas State
University. In addition to his books with McGee, he has co-authored
(with Serena Nanda) the best-selling textbooks Cultural
Anthropology, now in its eleventh edition, and Culture Counts, now
in its third edition.
Anthropological Theory is an impressive work dealing, as promised,
with both the theory and the history behind the development of
anthropological ideas. The sixth edition contains both a
wide-ranging collection of important articles and well-researched
and significant introductions and annotations. I don’t know of any
better introduction to the history of anthropology.
*Herbert S. Lewis, University of Wisconsin-Madison*
McGee and Warms have definitively established themselves as the
benchmark for readers in the history of anthropological theory.
Their selection of readings is intelligent and comprehensive, and
they carefully maintain a balance between classic sources and
contemporary writers. They deserve the highest praise for
demonstrating to students that primary sources are interesting,
indeed inspiring, and for carefully placing them in historical
context.
*Robert Launay, Northwestern University*
This is an excellent introduction: one that gives essential
historical depth to crucial theoretical debates.
*David Shankland, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain
and Ireland*
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