Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction

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McFarland, Feb 27, 2001 - Social Science - 181 pages
This 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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... precisely because human beings are biologically cultural . Either anthropology is cultural , or it does not exist . But have we not always perceived this ? Have we not pursued the origins , the most ancient past — any trace of the ...
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... precisely because the latter joins the biolog- ical organism to its external projection . All aspects of human life are thus included in the definition of " culture . " Biology , history , psychology , religion , art , philosophy , and ...
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Contents

Introduction
1
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
Bibliography
161
Index
171
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About the author (2001)

Ida Magli is professor emeritus of cultural anthropology at the University of Rome. She lives in Rome, Italy.

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TitleCultural Anthropology: An Introduction
AuthorIda Magli
EditorJanet Sethre
PublisherMcFarland, 2001
ISBN0786450487, 9780786450480
Length181 pages
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