Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and former President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He is the author of numerous classics of anthropology, including Small Places, Large Issues - 4th Edition (Pluto, 2015) and What is Anthropology? - 2nd Edition (Pluto, 2017).Finn Sivert Nielsen worked in the anthropology departments at the University of Tromso and the University of Copenhagen. He is a contributor to A History of Anthropology (Pluto, 2013).

'A well written and informative book on a subject of great importance for all social anthropologists. A work which offers a sober and balanced account of the historical growth of anthropology'. It certainly deserves to be widely read'

• Series prefacePreface1. Proto-AnthropologyIntroductionHerodotus and other GreeksAfter AntiquityThe European Conquests and their ImpactWhy All This is not Quite Anthropology YetThe EnlightenmentRomanticism2. Victorians, Germans and a FrenchmanIntroductionEvolutionism and Cultural HistoryMorganMarxBastian and the German TraditionTylor and Other VictoriansThe Golden Bough and the Torres ExpeditionGerman DiffusionismThe New SociologyDurkheimWeber3. Four Founding FathersIntroductionThe Founding Fathers and their ProjectsMalinowski and the Trobriand IslandersRadcliffe-Brown's Natural Science of SocietyBoas and Historical ParticularismMauss and the Total Social PrestationAnthropology in 1930: Parallels and Divergences 4. Expansion and InstitutionalisationIntroductionA Marginal Discipline?Oxford and LSE, Columbia and ChicagoThe Dakar-Djibouti ExpeditionCulture and PersonalityCultural HistoryEthnolinguisticsThe Chicago School'Kinshipology'Functionalism's Last StandSome British Outsiders5. Forms of ChangeIntroductionNeo-evolutionism and Cultural EcologyFormalism and SubstativismMethodological Individualists at CambridgeRole Analysis and System Theory6. The Power of SymbolsIntroductionFrom Function to MeaningEthnoscience and Symbolic AnthropologyGeertz and SchneiderLevi-Strauss and StructuralismEarly ImpactThe State of the Art in 19687. Questioning AuthorityIntroductionThe Return of MarxStructural MarxismThe Not-Quite-MarxistsPolitical Economy and the Capitalist World SystemFeminism and the Birth of Reflexive FieldworkEthnicityPractice TheoryThe Sociobiology Debate and Samoa8. The End of Modernism?IntroductionThe End of Modernism?The Postcolonial WorldA New Departure or a Return to Boas?Other Positions9. Global NetworksIntroductionTowards an International Anthropology?Trends for the FutureBiology and CultureGlobalisation and the Production of LocalityBibliographyIndex