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Harris Marvin

The rise of anthropological theory : A history of theories of culture - London AltaMira Press 2001 - 806p xv

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.

ISBN: 9780759101333

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Ethnology - History 2. Ethnology - Philosophy 3. Culture

Dewey Class. No.: 306.090000 / HAR