文档介绍：History and Theory in
Anthropology
Alan Barnard
University of Edinburgh
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© Alan Barnard 2004
First published in printed format 2000
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Contents
ListofWgurespageviii
Listoftablesix
Prefacexi
1Visionsofanthropology1
2Precursorsoftheanthropologicaltradition15
3Changingperspectivesonevolution27
4DiVusionistandculture-areatheories47
5Functionalismandstructural-functionalism61
6Action-centred,processual,andMarxistperspectives80
7Fromrelativismtocognitivescience99
8Structuralism,fromlinguisticstoanthropology120
9Poststructuralists,feminists,and(other)mavericks139
10Interpretiveandpostmodernistapproaches158
11Conclusions178
Appendix 1: Dates of birth and death of individuals
mentionedinthetext185
Appendix2:Glossary192
References215
Index236
vii
Figures
anic analogy: society is like anism 63
Relations between kinship terminology and social facts 74
The liminal phase as both ‘A’ and ‘not A’ 87
Marital alliance between Kachin lineages 93
Relations between Kachin and their ancestral spirits 94
InXuences on Le´vi-Strauss until about 1960 126
Le´vi-Strauss’ classiWcation of kinship systems 129
The culinary triangle 131
Kin relations among characters in the Oedipus myth 133
The grid and group axes 153
The grid and group boxes 154
Three traditions 179
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Tables
Diachronic, synchronic, and interactive perspectives 9
Perspectives on society and on culture