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Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
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ISBN-13:
9780761990215
Veröffentl:
1998
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.12.1998
Seiten:
226
Autor:
Marvin Harris
Gewicht:
335 g
Format:
229x152x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
University of Florida
chapter 1 Preface chapter 2 Part 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 Part 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 PART III: EXPLANATORY PRINCIPLES chapter 14 10. Holism chapter 15 11. Cultural Materialism chapter 16 12. Post-Modernism chapter 17 PART 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
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.