Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology

Herbert Applebaum is editor of Work in Non-Market and Transitional Societies and Work in Market and Industrial Societies, both published by SUNY Press. Dr. Applebaum also edits the "Anthropology of Work Review."

"I like the scope of the selections chosen, and the fact that they represent a wide range of contemporary points of view. The collection of readings fills a void in the materials available on contemporary anthropological theory. I learned some things I hadn't known." — Bernice A. Kaplan, Wayne State University"This book was highly interesting to me, an anthropologist who has long taught ethnological theory. What I like most is the very catholic approach of the author, which successfully brings much of the range of variation in the theory of cultural anthropology to the attention of the reader. Applebaum is evenhanded in his discussions of particular theories, and the readings selected are quite apropos of the theories discussed."— Frederick C. Gamst, University of Massachusetts

• PrefaceI. OverviewHerbert Applebaum1. A Quarter Century of American AnthropologyRobert F. MurphyII. Nineteenth Century EvolutionismIntroduction: Herbert Applebaum2. The Science of CultureEdward B. Tylor3. Ethnical PeriodsLewis H. MorganIII. The Boasian Attack - Historical ParticularismIntroduction: Herbert Applebaum4. The Limitations of the Comparative Method of AnthropologyFranz Boas5. The Nature of CultureAlfred L. Kroeber6. The Determinants of CultureRobert H. Lowie7. The Integration of CultureRuth BenedictIV. Integration of Cultures - Structuralism and FunctionalismIntroduction: Herbert Applebaum8. The Group and the Individual in Functional AnalysisBronislaw Malinowski9. On Social StructureAlfred R. Radcliffe-BrownV. Psychological AnthropologyIntroduction: Herbert Applebaum10. The Technique of Psychodynamic AnalysisAbram Kardiner11. Introduction: Coming of Age in SamoaIntroduction: Growing Up in Manus SocietyMargaret Mead12. Covert Culture and Administrative ProblemsClyde Kluckhohn13. A Strategy for Psychocultural ResearchJohn and Beatrice WhitingVI. Twentieth Century Evolution and Ecological AnthropologyIntroduction: Herbert Applebaum14. Cultural Causality and Law: A Trial Formulation of the Development of Early CivilizationsJulian H. Steward15. Energy and the Evolution of CultureLeslie A. White16. Evolutionary Epistemology and Human ValuesRonald Cohen17. Introduction: Ecological AnthropologyDonald L. Hardesty18. Reductionsim in Cultural Ecology: The Amazon CaseAllen JohnsonVII. Cultural Materialism and MarxismIntroduction: Herbert Applebaum19. Theoretical Principles of Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for A Science of CultureMarvin Harris20. Cultural Materialism and the Problem of ProbabilitiesPaul J. Magnarella21. The Scope and Boundaries of Anthropology: Perspectives in Marxist AnthropologyMaurice Godelier22. Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and AnthropologyGerald BerthoudVIII. Economic Anthropology and the Anthropology of WorkIntroduction: Herbert Applebaum23. Economic AnthropologyRichard F. Salisbury24. Theoretical Issues in Economic AnthropologyGeorge Dalton25. The Universal Aspects of WorkHerbert ApplebaumIX. Structuralism and Cognitive AnthropologyIntroduction: Herbert Applebaum26. Social Structure: Structural AnthropologyClaude Levi-Strauss27. Intellectual Antecedents of Levi-Strauss' Notion of UnconsciousIno Rossi28. Whatever Happened to Cognitive Anthropology: A Partial ReviewMichael H. Agar29. Cognition as a Residual Category in AnthropologyLaboratory of Comparative Human Cognition30. The Margaret Mead Controversy: Culture, Biology, and Anthropological InquiryNancy Scheper-HughesX. SociobiologyIntroduction: Herbert Applebaum31."Hope" From "On Human Nature"Edward O. Wilson32. Anthropology and the Nature of ThingsNapoleon A. ChagnonXI. Symbolic and Humanistic AnthropologyIntroduction: Herbert Applebaum33. Symbols in African RitualVictor W. Turner34. Kinship, Nationality, and Religion in American Culture: Toward a Definition of KinshipDavid M. Schneider35. Leaders and Followers: Cultural Pattern and Political Symbolism in YugoslaviaFrank A. Dubinskas36. Interpretive AnthropologyClifford GeertzXII. Concluding RemarksIntroduction: Herbert Applebaum37. Epistle to the AnthropologistsI. C. JarvieChapter SourcesBibliographyIndex