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An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 1998 Pages: 200 Publisher: Camidge. University Press In this innovative introduction Robert Layton reviews the ideas that have inspired anthropologists in their studies of societies around the world. An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology provides a clear and concise analysis of the theories. and traces the way in which they have been translated into anthropological debates. The opening chapter sets out the classical theoretical issues formulated by Hobbes. Rousseau. Marx and Durkheim. Successive chapters discuss Functionalism. Structuralism. Interactionist theories. and Marxist anthropology. while the final chapters address the competing paradigms of Socioecology and Postmodernism. Using detailed case studies. Professor Layton illustrates the way in which various theoretical perspectives have shaped competing. or complementary. accounts of specific h...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    This introduction to anthropological theory reviews the ideas that have inspired anthropologists in their studies of societies around the world. It offers a clear and concise analysis of the key theories, past and present, and traces the way in...

  • Foyles

    This clear and concise introduction to anthropological theory, written for undergraduate students, reviews the ideas that have inspired anthropologists in their ...

  • 0521629829
  • 9780521629829
  • Robert Layton
  • 8 January 1998
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 253
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