1st Edition

Theory in Anthropology

By Robert A. Manners, David Kaplan Copyright 1968
    596 Pages
    by Routledge

    600 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is VII in a series of ten volumes on the Theory in Anthropology. Originally published in 1968, this is a sourcebook that was created by the authors’ need for making accessible in a single volume a sample of those important pieces which are presently scattered in numerous publications, some of which are difficult for the student to obtain. Our second reason had to do with certain convictions they hold about the aims and methods of anthropology.

    Introduction: The Plan of the Book, Notes on Theory and Non-Theory in Anthropology, PART I: Overview, PART II: Explanation in Social Science, PART III: Methodology, PART IV: Functionalism Evolution and History, PART V: Culture and Personality, PART VI: Ecology, PART VII: Ideology, Language, and Values, PART VIII : Structuralism and Formal Analysis, Selected Bibliography

    Biography

    Robert A. Manners, David Kaplan