Paul A. Erickson is a past professor in the Department of Anthropology at Saint Mary’s University. Liam D. Murphy is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento.

• Preface Introduction Part One The Early History of Anthropological Theory  Overview 1. Bourgeois and Proletarians Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels2. The Science of Culture Edward Burnett Tylor3. Ethnical Periods Lewis Henry Morgan4. General Summary and Conclusion [The Descent of Man] Charles Darwin5. Introduction [The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life] Émile Durkheim6. Conclusion [The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies] Marcel Mauss7. The Sociology of Charismatic AuthorityMax Weber8. Nature of the Linguistic Sign and Synchronic and Diachronic Law Ferdinand de SaussurePart Two The Earlier Twentieth Century Overview 9. The Methods of Ethnology Franz Boas10. Conclusion [Primitive Society] Robert Lowie11. What Anthropology Is About Alfred Louis Kroeber12. Introduction [Coming of Age in Samoa]Margaret Mead13. The Individual and the Pattern of Culture Ruth Benedict14. The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in SocietyEdward Sapir15. Introduction and Part One: Folk Tales, John and the Frog, Witness of the Johnstown Flood in Heaven [Mules and Men] Zora Neale Hurston16. Social Structure Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown17. The Subject, Method, and Scope of This Inquiry [Argonauts of the Western Pacific] Bronislaw Malinowski18. Model Systems Edmund Leach19. Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa Max GluckmanPart Three The Later Twentieth Century Overview 20. Structuralism and EcologyClaude Lévi-Strauss21. Introduction [Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo] Mary Douglas22. Introduction [Islands of History] Marshall Sahlins23. Componential Analysis and the Study of Meaning Ward H. Goodenough24. Energy and Tools Leslie White25. Archaeology as AnthropologyLewis Binford26. The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism Marvin Harris27. The New Physical AnthropologySherwood Washburn28. Symbols in Ndembu Ritual Victor Turner29. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture Clifford Geertz30. Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology Sally Slocum31. The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship Micaela di Leonardo32. Introduction [Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter] Talal Asad33. Knowing the Oriental Edward W. Said34. Introduction [Europe and the People Without History] Eric R. Wolf35. Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication Dell Hymes36. The Subject and Power Michel Foucault37. Structures, Habitus, and Practices Pierre Bourdieu38. Partial Truths James Clifford39. A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences George E. Marcus and Michael M.J. Fischer40. A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Descent Margaret Lock and Nancy Scheper-HughesPart Four The Early Twenty-First Century Overview 41. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy Arjun Appadurai42. "We’re Here and We’re Queer!": An Introduction to Studies in Queer Anthropology Michelle Walks43. David Maybury-Lewis and Cultural Survival: Providing a Model for Public Anthropology, Advocacy, and Collaboration Louise Lamphere44. Introduction [Other People’s Anthropologies] Aleksandar Bošković and Thomas Hylland Eriksen45. An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: "Ontology" Is Just Another Word for Colonialism Zoe Todd46. From Kinship to Link-up: Cell Phones and Social Networking in Jamaica Heather Horst and Daniel Miller47. Introduction: Contemporary Theoretical Debate in Archaeology [Archaeological Theory Today] Ian Hodder48. Introduction [Is Science Racist?: Debating Race] Jonathan Marks49. Earth Stalked by Man Anna TsingConclusion Sources Index of Key Words