Anthropology in Theory

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

• Notes on the Editors xGeneral Introduction xiHenrietta L. Moore and Todd SandersAcknowledgments xviAnthropology and Epistemology 1Henrietta L. Moore and Todd SandersPART I 19Section 1 Culture and Behavior 211 The Aims of Anthropological Research 22Franz Boas2 The Concept of Culture in Science 32A. L. Kroeber3 Problems and Methods of Approach 37Gregory Bateson4 The Individual and the Pattern of Culture 43Ruth BenedictSection 2 Structure and System 535 Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts 54Emile Durkheim6 On Social Structure 64A. R. Radcliffe-Brown7 Introduction to Political Systems of Highland Burma 70E. R. Leach8 Social Structure 78Claude Lévi-StraussSection 3 Function and Environment 899 The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis 90Bronislaw Malinowski10 The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology 102Julian H. Steward11 Energy and the Evolution of Culture 109Leslie A. White12 Ecology, Cultural and Noncultural 123Andrew P. Vayda and Roy A. RappaportSection 4 Methods and Objects 12913 Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology 130J. H. M. Beattie14 Anthropological Data and Social Reality 141Ladislav Holy and Milan Stuchlik15 Objectification Objectified 151Pierre BourdieuPART II 163Section 5 Meanings as Objects of Study 16516 Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture 166Clifford Geertz17 Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology 173Talal Asad18 Subjectivity and Cultural Critique 186Sherry B. OrtnerSection 6 Language and Method 19119 Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology 192Claude Lévi-Strauss20 Ordinary Language and Human Action 204Malcolm Crick21 Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science 210Maurice BlochSection 7 Cognition, Psychology, and Neuroanthropology 22122 Towards an Integration of Ethnography, History and the Cognitive Science of Religion 222Harvey Whitehouse23 Linguistic and Cultural Variables in the Psychology of Numeracy 226Charles Stafford24 Subjectivity 231T. M. Luhrmann25 Why the Behavioural Sciences Need the Concept of the Culture-Ready Brain 236Charles WhiteheadSection 8 Bodies of Knowledges 24526 Knowledge of the Body 246Michael Jackson27 The End of the Body? 260Emily Martin28 Hybridity: Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary 276Lesley SharpPART III 283Section 9 Coherence and Contingency 28529 Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism 286Max Weber30 Introduction to Europe and the People Without History 293Eric R. Wolf31 Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution 308Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff32 Epochal Structures I: Reconstructing Historical Materialism 322Donald L. Donham33 Structures and the Habitus 332Pierre BourdieuSection 10 Universalisms and Domain Terms 34334 Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body: Some Anthropological Interventions in a Long Conversation 344Michael Lambek35 So Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? 357Sherry B. Ortner36 Global Anxieties: Concept-Metaphors and Pre-theoretical Commitments in Anthropology 363Henrietta L. MooreSection 11 Perspectives and Their Logics 37737 The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism 378Robert J. Thornton38 Writing Against Culture 386Lila Abu-Lughod39 Cutting the Network 400Marilyn StrathernSection 12 Objectivity, Morality, and Truth 41140 The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology 412Nancy Scheper-Hughes41 Moral Models in Anthropology 419Roy D’Andrade42 Postmodernist Anthropology, Subjectivity, and Science: A Modernist Critique 429Melford E. Spiro43 Beyond Good and Evil? Questioning the Anthropological Discomfort with Morals 441Didier FassinPART IV 445Section 13 The Anthropology of Western Modes of Thought 44744 The Invention of Women 448Oyèrónké Oyìwùmí45 Valorizing the Present: Orientalism, Postcoloniality and the Human Sciences 455Vivek Dhareshwar46 Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism 461Eduardo Viveiros de CastroSection 14 (Re)defining Objects of Inquiry 47547 What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies 476Stefan Helmreich48 The Near and the Elsewhere 481Marc Augé49 Relativism 492Bruno LatourSection 15 Subjects, Objects, and Affect 50150 How to Read the Future: The Yield Curve, Affect, and Financial Prediction 502Caitlin Zaloom51 Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things 508Webb Keane52 Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects: Ruination and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge 514Yael Navaro-YashinSection 16 Imagining Methodologies and Meta-things 52153 Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference 522Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson54 What is at Stake – and is not – in the Idea and Practice of Multi-sited Ethnography 531George E. Marcus55 Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination 535Arjun Appadurai56 The End of Anthropology, Again: On the Future of an In/Discipline 547John ComaroffSection 17 Anthropologizing Ourselves 55557 Participant Objectivation 556Pierre Bourdieu58 Anthropology of Anthropology? Further Reflections on Reflexivity 561P. Steven Sangren59 World Anthropologies: Cosmopolitics for a New Global Scenario in Anthropology 566Gustavo Lins Ribeiro60 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-functioning of Ethnography 571Douglas R. Holmes and George E. MarcusIndex 576