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<p>Notes on the Editors x</p> <p>General Introduction xi<br /> <i>Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders</i></p> <p>Acknowledgments xvi</p> <p>Anthropology and Epistemology 1<br /> <i>Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders</i></p> <p><b>PART I 19</b></p> <p><b>Section 1 Culture and Behavior 21</b></p> <p>1 The Aims of Anthropological Research 22<br /> <i>Franz Boas</i></p> <p>2 The Concept of Culture in Science 32<br /> <i>A. L. Kroeber</i></p> <p>3 Problems and Methods of Approach 37<br /> <i>Gregory Bateson</i></p> <p>4 The Individual and the Pattern of Culture 43<br /> <i>Ruth Benedict</i></p> <p><b>Section 2 Structure and System 53</b></p> <p>5 Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts 54<br /> <i>Emile Durkheim</i></p> <p>6 On Social Structure 64<br /> <i>A. R. Radcliffe-Brown</i></p> <p>7 Introduction to Political Systems of Highland Burma 70<br /> <i>E. R. Leach</i></p> <p>8 Social Structure 78<br /> <i>Claude Lévi-Strauss</i></p> <p><b>Section 3 Function and Environment 89</b></p> <p>9 The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis 90<br /> <i>Bronislaw Malinowski</i></p> <p>10 The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology 102<br /> <i>Julian H. Steward</i></p> <p>11 Energy and the Evolution of Culture 109<br /> <i>Leslie A. White</i></p> <p>12 Ecology, Cultural and Noncultural 123<br /> <i>Andrew P. Vayda and Roy A. Rappaport</i></p> <p><b>Section 4 Methods and Objects 129</b></p> <p>13 Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology 130<br /> <i>J. H. M. Beattie</i></p> <p>14 Anthropological Data and Social Reality 141<br /> <i>Ladislav Holy and Milan Stuchlik</i></p> <p>15 Objectification Objectified 151<br /> <i>Pierre Bourdieu</i></p> <p><b>PART II 163</b></p> <p><b>Section 5 Meanings as Objects of Study 165</b></p> <p>16 Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture 166<br /> <i>Clifford Geertz</i></p> <p>17 Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology 173<br /> <i>Talal Asad</i></p> <p>18 Subjectivity and Cultural Critique 186<br /> <i>Sherry B. Ortner</i></p> <p><b>Section 6 Language and Method 191</b></p> <p>19 Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology 192<br /> <i>Claude Lévi-Strauss</i></p> <p>20 Ordinary Language and Human Action 204<br /> <i>Malcolm Crick</i></p> <p>21 Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science 210<br /> <i>Maurice Bloch</i></p> <p><b>Section 7 Cognition, Psychology, and Neuroanthropology 221</b></p> <p>22 Towards an Integration of Ethnography, History and the Cognitive Science of Religion 222<br /> <i>Harvey Whitehouse</i></p> <p>23 Linguistic and Cultural Variables in the Psychology of Numeracy 226<br /> <i>Charles Stafford</i></p> <p>24 Subjectivity 231<br /> <i>T. M. Luhrmann</i></p> <p>25 Why the Behavioural Sciences Need the Concept of the Culture-Ready Brain 236<br /> <i>Charles Whitehead</i></p> <p><b>Section 8 Bodies of Knowledges 245</b></p> <p>26 Knowledge of the Body 246<br /> <i>Michael Jackson</i></p> <p>27 The End of the Body? 260<br /> <i>Emily Martin</i></p> <p>28 Hybridity: Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary 276<br /> <i>Lesley Sharp</i></p> <p><b>PART III 283</b></p> <p><b>Section 9 Coherence and Contingency 285</b></p> <p>29 Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism 286<br /> <i>Max Weber</i></p> <p>30 Introduction to Europe and the People Without History 293<br /> <i>Eric R. Wolf</i></p> <p>31 Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution 308<br /> <i>Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff</i></p> <p>32 Epochal Structures I: Reconstructing Historical Materialism 322<br /> <i>Donald L. Donham</i></p> <p>33 Structures and the Habitus 332<br /> <i>Pierre Bourdieu</i></p> <p><b>Section 10 Universalisms and Domain Terms 343</b></p> <p>34 Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body: Some Anthropological Interventions in a Long Conversation 344<br /> <i>Michael Lambek</i></p> <p>35 So Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? 357<br /> <i>Sherry B. Ortner</i></p> <p>36 Global Anxieties: Concept-Metaphors and Pre-theoretical Commitments in Anthropology 363<br /> <i>Henrietta L. Moore</i></p> <p><b>Section 11 Perspectives and Their Logics 377</b></p> <p>37 The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism 378<br /> <i>Robert J. Thornton</i></p> <p>38 Writing Against Culture 386<br /> <i>Lila Abu-Lughod</i></p> <p>39 Cutting the Network 400<br /> <i>Marilyn Strathern</i></p> <p><b>Section 12 Objectivity, Morality, and Truth 411</b></p> <p>40 The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology 412<br /> <i>Nancy Scheper-Hughes</i></p> <p>41 Moral Models in Anthropology 419<br /> <i>Roy D’Andrade</i></p> <p>42 Postmodernist Anthropology, Subjectivity, and Science: A Modernist Critique 429<br /> <i>Melford E. Spiro</i></p> <p>43 Beyond Good and Evil? Questioning the Anthropological Discomfort with Morals 441<br /> <i>Didier Fassin</i></p> <p><b>PART IV 445</b></p> <p><b>Section 13 The Anthropology of Western Modes of Thought 447</b></p> <p>44 The Invention of Women 448<br /> <i>Oyèrónké Oyìwùmí</i></p> <p>45 Valorizing the Present: Orientalism, Postcoloniality and the Human Sciences 455<br /> <i>Vivek Dhareshwar</i></p> <p>46 Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism 461<br /> <i>Eduardo Viveiros de Castro</i></p> <p><b>Section 14 (Re)defining Objects of Inquiry 475</b></p> <p>47 What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies 476<br /> <i>Stefan Helmreich</i></p> <p>48 The Near and the Elsewhere 481<br /> <i>Marc Augé</i></p> <p>49 Relativism 492<br /> <i>Bruno Latour</i></p> <p><b>Section 15 Subjects, Objects, and Affect 501</b></p> <p>50 How to Read the Future: The Yield Curve, Affect, and Financial Prediction 502<br /> <i>Caitlin Zaloom</i></p> <p>51 Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things 508<br /> <i>Webb Keane</i></p> <p>52 Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects: Ruination and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge 514<br /> <i>Yael Navaro-Yashin</i></p> <p><b>Section 16 Imagining Methodologies and Meta-things 521</b></p> <p>53 Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference 522<br /> <i>Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson</i></p> <p>54 What is at Stake – and is not – in the Idea and Practice of Multi-sited Ethnography 531<br /> <i>George E. Marcus</i></p> <p>55 Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination 535<br /> <i>Arjun Appadurai</i></p> <p>56 The End of Anthropology, Again: On the Future of an In/Discipline 547<br /> <i>John Comaroff</i></p> <p><b>Section 17 Anthropologizing Ourselves 555</b></p> <p>57 Participant Objectivation 556<br /> <i>Pierre Bourdieu</i></p> <p>58 Anthropology of Anthropology? Further Reflections on Reflexivity 561<br /> <i>P. Steven Sangren</i></p> <p>59 World Anthropologies: Cosmopolitics for a New Global Scenario in Anthropology 566<br /> <i>Gustavo Lins Ribeiro</i></p> <p>60 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-functioning of Ethnography 571<br /> <i>Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus</i></p> <p>Index 576</p>

<p><b>Henrietta L. Moore</b> is the William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Her most recent book is <i>Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions</i> (2011).</p> <p><b>Todd Sanders</b> is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and has worked in Africa for two decades. His books include <i>Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa</i> (2004) and <i>Beyond Bodies: Rainmaking and Sense Making in Tanzania</i> (2008).</p>

<p>The first edition of <i>Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology</i> garnered widespread praise for its comprehensive presentation of issues relating to the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century. The new edition includes a variety of revisions and updates to reflect an on-going resurgence of the discipline, and features several new readings that point to innovative theoretical directions in the development of anthropological theory in recent years.</p> <p>While tracing the course of anthropological theory, readings cover a broad range of topics that include excerpts and central concepts of seminal anthropological works, key classic and contemporary debates in the discipline, and cutting-edge new theorizing. Also revealed are the ways anthropological projects continue to shape broader debates in the social sciences—everything from society and culture, structure and agency, identities and technologies, subjectivities and trans-locality to meta-theory, ontology, and epistemology. At once enlightening and accessible, <i>Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, 2nd Edition</i>, offers invaluable insights into the theoretical assumptions underlying the development of modern cultural anthropology.</p>

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