{"product_id":"the-rise-of-anthropological-theory-a-history-of-theories-of-culture","title":"The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1969. First Edition. Large octavo with red cloth boards in cream jacket with black text; 806 pages; 24 cm Near fine in very good (-)  jacket with a few small tears to spine and wear to edges; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780690703221, 9780710063250\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a major work in anthropology which traces the development of anthropological thought from its beginnings to the present. Mr Harris summarizes the important theories of culture advanced in the past two hundred years, and examines these theories critically in the light of current methodology. He believes that anthropologists have tended to dwell on the trivial and superfluous and urges that they should redirect their efforts towards the affirmation of universal principles. As he writes in his opening chapter: 'My main reason for writing this book is to reassert the methodological priority of the search for the laws of history in the science of man. Students of anthropological theory and scholars engaged in evaluating the writing and research of anthropologists will find this volume indispensable in pursuing their studies.\" --Jacket \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: Enlightenment. Reaction and recovery: the early nineteenth century. Rise of racial determinism. Spencerism. Evolutionism: methods. The evolutionists: results. Dialectical materialism. Historical particularism: Boas. The Boasian milieu. The ethnographic basis of particularism. Kroeber. Lowie. Diffusionism. Culture and personality: pre-Freudian. Culture and personality: Freudian. Culture and personality: new directions. French structuralism. British social anthropology. Emics, etics, and the new ethnography. Statistical survey and the Nomothetic revival. Cultural materialism: general evolution. Cultural materialism: cultural ecology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harris, Marvin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049424044290,"sku":"105531","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/105531.jpg?v=1763582694","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/the-rise-of-anthropological-theory-a-history-of-theories-of-culture","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}