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Anthropology Reconsidered: Science, Social Organization, Epistemology book cover

1st Edition

Anthropology Reconsidered Science, Social Organization, Epistemology

By Murray J. Leaf Copyright 2027
358 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

358 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Anthropology Reconsidered argues that anthropology can and should be considered a genuine science of humanity. The work traces the evolution of anthropological thought from its 18th-century origins through contemporary debates, analyzing how competing epistemological traditions—empirical/skeptical versus dogmatic—have shaped theoretical approaches to social organization and kinship studies.... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Unavoidable Problems

3. Arguments and Epistemologies

4. 18th Century

5. 19th Century

6. Dogmatic Ethnology

7. Inventing Fieldwork

8. Inventing Anti-Fieldwork

9. Thoroughly Experimental Fieldwork

10. Radical Transformation

11. The Current Standoff

12. Conflicts, Networks, Corruption

13. Conclusion

Biography

Murray J. Leaf (PhD, University of Chicago) is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas. Previous publications include Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village (1972), Song of Hope (1984), Pragmatism and Development (1998), Man, Mind, and Science: A History of Anthropological Theory (1979), Anthropology of Western Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies (2014), Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies (2014), and Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy: The Community of Scholars in America (2019).

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