Anthropology 2

Anthropology is a system of rival and contrasting theories in which any one theory is challenged by one or more competing theories. An over-simplification can represent this trend by the following:

Subjective	Objective
Emic (native point of view)	Etic (science)
Diachronic (historical)	Synchronic (functional scientific)
Qualitative (non-mathematical)	Quantitative (mathematical)
Synthetic (empirical descriptive)	Analytic (Theory)
Humanities	Science
Ideographic (particular)	Nomothetic (general)
Critical discourse (political activism)	Rational discourse (professional detachment)
Narrative	Systemic knowledge
Chronicle	Encyclopedic

References and further readings

Barnard, Alan (2000) History and Theory in Anthropology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Birx, H. J. (1984). Theories of Evolution. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas.

Brazill, William J. (1970) Young Hegelians Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press

Bidney, David Theoretical Anthropology: Second Edition New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers

Boas, Franz (1963) The Mind of Primitive Man Macmillan: New York

Cameron, Kenneth Neill (1995) Dialectical Materialism and Modern Science New York: International Publishers

Durpe, L. (2004) The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

Engels, Frederick (1975) The Origin of the Family, Private Property and The State New York: International Publishers

Engels, Frederick (1976) Anti-Duhring: Herr Eugen Duhring’s Revolution in Science New York: International Publishers

Francisconi, Michael Joseph (1998) Kinship, Capitalism Change: The Informal Economy of the Navajo 1868 – 1995. New York: Garland

Harris Marvin (1968) The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture New York, Thomas Y. Crowel Company

Harris, Marvin (1974) Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture New York: Vintage Books.

Harris, Marvin (1977) Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures New York: Vintage Books.

 

Harris, Marvin (1980) Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture. New York: Vintage Books.

Harris, Marvin (1998) Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times. Walnut Creek, CA: Rowman & Littlefield.

Hegel, G.W.F. (1967) The Phenomenology of the Mind New York: Harpers

Layton, Robert (1998) An Introduction to theory in Anthropology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Lewellen, Ted C. (1983) Political Anthropology: An Introduction First Edition South Hadley Massachusetts: Bergin and Garvey

Marcuse, Herbert (1960) Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Sociological Theory. Boston: Beacon Press

Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels (1970) The German Ideology New York: International Publishers

Marx, Karl (1973) The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 New York: International Publishers

Rosseberry, William (1994) Anthropology and Histories: essays in culture, history and political economy New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press

Selsman, Howard, David Goldway and Harry Martel ed. (1975) Dynamics of Social Change: A Reader in Marxist Social Science New York: International Publishers

Steward, Julian H. (1976) Theory of Culture Change: the methodology of multilinear evolution  Urbana Illinois: University of Illinois Press

White, Leslie A. (1969)The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization New York: Noonday Press

Wolf, Eric Robert 1982 Europe and the People Without History Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Wolf, Eric Robert 1999 Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis

Los Angeles:University of California Press

Zeitlin, Irving M. (1990) Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory: Fourth Edition Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall