Cultural Anthropology: An IntroductionThis introductory text examines the formation, history, function, and most significant results of cultural anthropology. Special topics include the great ocean voyages of the early explorers; theories of progress and adaptation; the development of anthropology through the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries; the study of religion, taboo, and myth; and the classic works of Franz Boas, Alfred L. Kroeber, Robert Lowe, and Bronislaw Malinowski. Also considered is the influence of anthropological methods and research on psychoanalysis, and how anthropology wrought a revolution in historical research. |
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Contents
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The Beginnings of Anthropological Research and the Idea of Progress | 7 |
The First Patterns of Human Progress | 10 |
A New Intellectual Era | 13 |
The Great Journeys Men Different from Us | 17 |
The First Ethnographic Descriptions and Journey Accounts | 21 |
Around the World with Francesco Gemelli Careri | 24 |
Matteo Riccis Adaptation | 26 |
The Classics of Anthropology | 77 |
Alfred L Kroeber | 83 |
Robert Lowie | 92 |
Bronislaw Malinowski | 97 |
The Field of Transcendence | 111 |
Taboo and Mana | 116 |
Hypotheses on Myth | 128 |
Psychology and Anthropology | 139 |
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | 28 |
The Great Ocean Voyages and the Work of the Observateurs de IHomme | 35 |
The Dispute Over the New World | 41 |
The Nineteenth Century | 48 |
Encyclopedic Collections of Klemm and Waitz | 59 |
Evolutionism and Comparativism | 63 |
The Problem of Psychiatry and Trans cultural Psychiatry | 148 |
Normality and Abnormality in Cultures | 156 |
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| Title | Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction |
| Author | Ida Magli |
| Editor | Janet Sethre |
| Publisher | McFarland, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0786450487, 9780786450480 |
| Length | 181 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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