Table of Contents

Enlightenment; reaction and recovery - the early 19th century; rise of racial determinism; Spencerism; evolutionism - methods; the evolutionists - results; dialectical materialism; historical particularism - Boas; the Boasian milieu; the ethnographic basis of particularism; Kroeber; Lowie; diffusionism; culture and personality - pre-Freudian; culture and personality - Freudian; culture and personality - new directions; French structuralism; British social anthropology; emics, etics and the new ethnography; statistical survey and the nomothetic revival; cultural materialism - general evolution; cultural materialism - cultural ecology.