Theory of Anthropology: A Sourcebook

Contents
Introduction: The Plan of the Book
Notes on Theory and Non-Theory in Anthropology
Part I: Overview
     1. On the Concept of Culture • Leslie A. White
     2. The Superorganic: Science or Metaphysics • David Kaplan
     3. The Difficulties Achievement and Limitations of Social Anthropology • Max Gluckman
     4. Social Anthropology: Past and Present • E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Part II: Explanation in Social Science
     6. On Explanation • John Hospers
     7. The “Natural Science Ideal” in the Social Sciences • Lewis White Beck
     8. Explanation and Comparative Dynamics in Social Science • John C. Harsanyi
     9. The Phenomenological and Naturalistic Approaches to the Social • Leon J. Goldstein
     10. Causes, Functions and Cross-Cousin Marriage: An Essay in Anthropological Explanation •  Melford E. Spiro
     11. Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology • John H. M. Beattie
Part III: Methodology
     12. Levels of Sociocultural Integration: An Operational Concept • Julian H. Steward
     13. Zuñi: Some Observations and Queries • Li An-che
     14. A Chinese Phase in Social Anthropology • Maurice Freedman
     15. Functionalis Realpolitik and Anthropology, in Underdeveloped Areas • Robert A. Manners
     16. Some Criticisms of Cultural Relativism • Paul F. Schmidt
     17. Observation and Generalization in Cultural Anthropology • Jessie Bernard
     18. Residence Rules • Ward Goodenough
Part IV: Functionalism Evolution and History
     19. Conflict and Congruence in Anthropological Theory • Linton Freeman
A. Structure and Function
     20. Limits to Functionalism and Alternatives to It in Anthropology • I. C. Jarvie
     21. Functional Analysis of Change • Francesca Cancian
     22. Function and Cause • Ronald Philip Dore
     23. On Social Structure • S. F. Nadel
B. Evolution
     24. Evolution: Specific and General • Marshall D. Sahlins
     25. Multilinear Evolution: Evolution and Process • Julian H. Steward
     26. On the Evolution of Social Stratification and the State • Morton Fried
     27. Language and Evolution • Joseph H. Greenberg
C. History
     28. History and Science in Anthropology • Marc J. Swartz
     29. Some Issues in the Logic of Historical Analysis • Ernest Nagel
     30. Indian-European Relations in Colonial Latin America • Elman R. Service
     31. Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java •  Eric R. Wolf
Part V: Culture and Personality
     32. The Influence of Linguistics on Early Culture and Personality Theory • David F. Aberle
     33. Personality and Social Structure • Bert Kaplan
     34. Behavioral Evolution and the Emergence of the Self • A. Irving Hallowell
     35. Cultural and Cognitive Discontinuity • Ulric Neisser
Part VI: Ecology
     36. Culture and Environment: The Study of Cultural Ecology • Marshall D. Sahlins
     37. The Frontier in History • Owen D. Lattimore
     38. Ecologic Relations of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan • Fredrik Barth
     39. Tappers and Trappers: Parallel Process in Acculturation • Robert F. Murphy and Julian H. Steward
Part VII: Ideology Language and Values
     40. Sociological Aspects of the Relation between Language and Culture • Lewis S. Feuer
     41. Language Thought and Culture • Paul Henle
     42. Linguistic Relativity: The Views of Benjamin Lee Whorf • Max Black
     43. Belief and Knowledge • Godfrey Lienhardt
     44. Social Beliefs and Individual Thinking in Tribal Society • Max Gluckman
     45. On Norms and Values • Judith Blake and Kingsley Davis
Part VIII: Structuralism and Formal Analysis
     46. Studies in Ethnoscience • William C. Sturtevant
     47. The Psychic Unity of Human Groups • Anthony F. C. Wallace
     48. The Ethnographic Study of Cognitive Systems • Charles O. Frake
     49. Cognition and Componential Analysis: God’s Truth or Hocus-Pocus? • Robbins Burling
     50. Some Comments on Formal Analysis of Grammatical and Semantic Systems • Muriel Hammer
     51. Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology • Claude Lévi-Strauss
     52. Claude Levi-Strauss—Anthropologist and Philosopher • Edmund Leach
     53. The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss • Clifford Geertz
Selected Bibliography