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Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; diffusionism and culture area theories, functionalism and structural-functionalism; action-centred theories; processual and Marxist perspectives; the many faces of relativism, structuralism and post-structuralism; and recent interpretive and postmodernist viewpoints.

An overview of anthropological theory covering the historical contexts of the great debates.

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CONTENTS
List of figures = ⅷ
List of tables = ix
Preface = xi
1 Visions of anthropology = 1
2 Precursors of the anthropological tradition = 15
3 Changing perspectives on evolution = 27
4 Diffusionist and culture-area theories = 47
5 Functionalism and structural-functionalism = 61
6 Action-centred, processual, and Marxist perspectives = 80
7 From relativism to cognitive science = 99
8 Structuralism, from linguistics to anthropology = 120
9 Poststructuralists, feminists, and (other) mavericks = 139
10 Interpretive and postmodernist approaches = 158
11 Conclusions = 178
Appendix 1 : Dates of birth and death of individuals mentioned in the text = 185
Appendix 2 : Glossary = 192
References = 215
Index = 236