文档介绍：A
HISTORY
OF
ANTHROPOLOGY
THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN
AND FINN SIVERT NIELSEN
Pluto P Press
LONDON • STERLING, VIRGINIA
First published 2001
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Copyright © Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Finn Sivert Nielsen 2001
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CONTENTS
Preface vi
1. Beginnings 1
2. Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman 16
3. Four Founding Fathers 36
4. Expansion and Institutionalisation 54
5. Forms of Change 76
6. The Power of Symbols 96
7. Questioning Authority 111
8. The End of Modernism? 135
9. Reconstructions 157
Bibliography 179
Index 192
v
PREFACE
This is an ambitious book, but not a pretentious one. It is ambitious in that
it tries, within the space of relatively few pages, to make sense of the diverse
history of anthropology. Our priorities, omissions and interpretations are
bound to be contested, since there can be no single authoritative history of
anything, least of all a sprawling, dynamic and disputed field like anthro-
pology. Still, the book is unpretentious, since our aim throughout has been
to offer a sober and balanced account of the historical growth of anthro-
pology as a discipline, not to propose a radical re-interpretat