Classic Anthropology: Critical Essays, 1944-96

by John W. Bennett

Overview

Classic anthropology is Bennett''s label for the work produced by anthropologists between 1915 and 1955. In this book, Bennett criticises classic anthropology for ne glecting the contemporary world and modern societies. '

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560003335
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1997
Series:	New Perspectives on the Past
Pages:	444
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John W. Bennett (1915-2005) was emeritus professor of anthropology at Washington University, St. Louis. He served as president of the American Ethnological Society and the Society for Applied Anthropology, and was a member of the editorial boards of the Annual Review of Anthropology and Reviews in Anthropology. Among his books are The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation, Classic Anthropology: Critical Essays, 1944-1996, and Human Ecology as Human Behavior: Essays in Environmental and Development Anthropology.

Table of Contents

1: Classic Anthropology: An Introduction; Introductory Note to Chapters 2 and 3; 2: Myth, Theory, and Value in Cultural Anthropology; 3: Interdisciplinary Research and the Concept of Culture; 4: The Micro-Macro Nexus in Classic and Post-Classic Anthropology; 5: The Plains Indian Sun Dance: Leslie Spier’s Historical Reconstruction, and Functionalist Research by Others; 6: Interpretations of Pueblo Indian Culture by Laura Thompson, Esther Goldfrank, Dorothy Eggan, and Others; 7: Early and Late Functional Analysis: Bronislaw Malinowski’s Baloma: Spirits of the Dead and Clyde Kluckhohn’s Navaho Witchcraft; 8: A Problem in Social Organization: The Use of Kinship as an Organizing Principle for Instrumental Activities; 9: Psychology and Anthropology: Modes of Interface as Represented in the Work of F. C. Bartlett, Abram Kardiner, Ralph Linton, and Gregory Bateson; Introductory Note to Chapters 10 and 11; 10: A. L. Kroeber and the Concept of Culture as Superorganic; 11: Walter W. Taylor and Americanist Archaeology’s Search for a Concept of Culture; 12: Applied and Action Anthropology: Problems of Ideology and Intervention; 13: The “Famous Lady Anthropologists”: Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead; 14: Populist Anthropology: Robert Lowie, Marvin Harris, and Clyde Kluckhohn; 15: Epilogue: A Philosophical Voice at the End of the Classic Era: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin