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Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
ISBN-13:
9780759117426
Veröffentl:
1998
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Marvin Harris
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Marvin Harris is arguably the most influential, prolific anthropological theorist of our time. This book brings together many of the strands of his work of the past two decades into a unified, contemporary statement on anthropological theory and practice. In this book, he presents his current views on the nature of culture addressing such issues as the mental/behavioral debate, emics and etics, and anthropological holism. He resoundly critiques many current theoretical trends_from sociobiology to postmodernism to Afrocentrism. And he offers a cultural materialist perspective on diverse contemporary issues such as the IQ question and the fall of communism. Harris' thought-provoking and controversial theoretical views will be required reading for all anthropologists, social theorists, and their students.
Marvin Harris is arguably the most influential, prolific anthropological theorist of our time. This book brings together many of the strands of his work of the past two decades into a unified, contemporary statement on anthropological theory and practice. In this book, he presents his current views on the nature of culture addressing such issues as the mental/behavioral debate, emics and etics, and anthropological holism. He resoundly critiques many current theoretical trends_from sociobiology to postmodernism to Afrocentrism. And he offers a cultural materialist perspective on diverse contemporary issues such as the IQ question and the fall of communism. Harris' thought-provoking and controversial theoretical views will be required reading for all anthropologists, social theorists, and their students.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2
Chapter I: CONCEPTUALIZING CULTURE
Chapter 3 1. What is (are) Culture(s)?
Chapter 4 2. Emics and Etics
Chapter 5 3. The Nature of Cultural Things
Chapter 6 4. Science, Objectivity, Morality
Chapter 7
Chapter II: BIOLOGY AND CULTURE
Chapter 8 5. De-biologizing Culture: The Boasians
Chapter 9 6. Biologizing Inequality
Chapter 10 7. IQ Is Not Forever
Chapter 11 8. Neo-Darwinism
Chapter 12 9. Confronting Ethnomania
Chapter 13
Chapter III: EXPLANATORY PRINCIPLES
Chapter 14 10. Holism
Chapter 15 11. Cultural Materialism
Chapter 16 12. Post-Modernism
Chapter 17
Chapter IV: MACRO-EVOLUTION
Chapter 18 13. Origins of Capitalism
Chapter 19 14. The Soviet Collapse
Chapter 20 References
Chapter 21 About the Author
Chapter 22 Index