This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of 'Enlightenment', 'Romantic' and 'Victorian' anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions of German scholars. The ambiguous relationship between anthropology and national cultures is also considered.The book provides an unparalleled account of theoretical developments in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, including functionalism, structuralism, hermeneutics, neo-Marxism and discourse analysis. There are brief biographies of major anthropologists and coverage of key debates including totemism, kinship and globalisation.This essential text on anthropology is highly engaging, authoritative and suitable for students at all levels.

Series prefacePreface1. Proto-AnthropologyIntroductionHerodotus and other GreeksAfter AntiquityThe European Conquests and their ImpactWhy All This is not Quite Anthropology YetThe EnlightenmentRomanticism2. Victorians, Germans and a FrenchmanIntroductionEvolutionism and Cultural HistoryMorganMarxBastian and the German TraditionTylor and Other VictoriansThe Golden Bough and the Torres ExpeditionGerman DiffusionismThe New SociologyDurkheimWeber3. Four Founding FathersIntroductionThe Founding Fathers and their ProjectsMalinowski and the Trobriand IslandersRadcliffe-Brown's Natural Science of SocietyBoas and Historical ParticularismMauss and the Total Social PrestationAnthropology in 1930: Parallels and Divergences4. Expansion and InstitutionalisationIntroductionA Marginal Discipline?Oxford and LSE, Columbia and ChicagoThe Dakar-Djibouti ExpeditionCulture and PersonalityCultural HistoryEthnolinguisticsThe Chicago School'Kinshipology'Functionalism's Last StandSome British Outsiders5. Forms of ChangeIntroductionNeo-evolutionism and Cultural EcologyFormalism and SubstativismMethodological Individualists at CambridgeRole Analysis and System Theory6. The Power of SymbolsIntroductionFrom Function to MeaningEthnoscience and Symbolic AnthropologyGeertz and SchneiderLevi-Strauss and StructuralismEarly ImpactThe State of the Art in 19687. Questioning AuthorityIntroductionThe Return of MarxStructural MarxismThe Not-Quite-MarxistsPolitical Economy and the Capitalist World SystemFeminism and the Birth of Reflexive FieldworkEthnicityPractice TheoryThe Sociobiology Debate and Samoa8. The End of Modernism?IntroductionThe End of Modernism?The Postcolonial WorldA New Departure or a Return to Boas?Other Positions9. Global NetworksIntroductionTowards an International Anthropology?Trends for the FutureBiology and CultureGlobalisation and the Production of LocalityBibliographyIndex