Engaging Anthropological Theory : A Social and Political History (Paperback, 3 ed)

1. Of Politics and Paradigms. 2. Claims and Critiques of Anthropological Knowledge. 3. Anthropology before Anthropologists. 4. Theory and Practice to Change the World. 5. Heirs to Order and Progress. 6. Spencer, Darwin, and the Evolutionary Parables for our Time. 7. The Boasian Revolution. 8. Culture and Psychology. 9. Functionalism, the Pure and the Hyphenated. 10. Anti-Structure and the Collapse of Empire. 11. Evolution Redux. 12. Contemporary Materialist and Ecological Approaches. 13. Symbols, Structures, and the “Web of Significance”. 14. Postmodern Political Economy and Sensibilities. 15. The Contemporary Anthropological Moment