R. Jon McGee is professor of anthropology at Texas State University. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Watching Lacandon Maya Lives, Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia (coedited with Richard L. Warms), and Sacred Realms: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion (coedited with Warms and James Garber), now in its second edition.

TOC of the Sixth Edition

Part I: Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory
Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism
1. Herbert Spencer: The Social Organism (1860)
2. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor: The Science of Culture (1871)
3. Lewis Henry Morgan: Ethnical Periods (1877)
4. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook (1846)
The Foundations of Sociological Thought
5. Émile Durkheim: What Is a Social Fact? (1895)
6. Marcel Mauss: Excerpts from The Gift (1925)
7. Max Weber: Class, Status, Party (1922)

Part II: Culture Theory in the Early Twentieth Century
The Boasians
8. Franz Boas: The Methods of Ethnology (1920)
9. A. L. Kroeber: On the Principle of Order in Civilization as Exemplified by Changes of Fashion
(1919)
10. Ruth Benedict: The Science Of Custom: The Bearing of Anthropology on Contemporary Thought (1929)
11. Margaret Mead: Introduction to Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)
12. Benjamin L. Whorf: The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language (1941)
Functionalism
13. Bronislaw Malinowski: The Essentials of the Kula (1922)
14. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown: On Joking Relationships (1940)
15. Max Gluckman: The Licence in Ritual (1956)

Part III: Theory At Mid-Century
The Reemergence of Evolutionary Thought
16. Leslie White: Energy and the Evolution of Culture (1943)
17. Julian Steward: The Patrilineal Band (1955)
18. Morton H. Fried: On the Evolution of Social Stratification and the State (1960)
Neomaterialism
19. Marvin Harris: The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle (1966)
20. Eric Wolf: Peasantry and Its Problems (1966)
Structure, Language, and Cognition
21. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Four Winnebago Myths: A Structural Sketch (1960)
22. Harold C. Conklin: Hanunóo Color Categories (1955)
23. Eugene Hunn: The Tenejapa Tzeltal Version of the Animal Kingdom (1975)

Part IV: Late Twentieth Century Developments
Sociobiology and Behavioral Ecology
24. Edward O. Wilson: The Morality of the Gene (1975)
25. Rebecca Bliege Bird, Eric Alden Smith, and Douglas W. Bird: The Hunting Handicap: Costly Signaling in Human Foraging Strategies (2001)
Feminist Anthropology
26. Sally Slocum: Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology (1975)
27. Eleanor Leacock: Interpreting the Origins of Gender Inequality: Conceptual and Historical Problems (1983)
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
28. Mary Douglas: External Boundaries (1966)
29. Victor Turner: Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (1967)
30. Clifford Geertz: Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (1972)
Background to Postmodernism
31. Pierre Bourdieu: Structures, Habitus, Practices (1980)
32. Michel Foucault: The Incitement to Discourse (1976)
Postmodernism
33. Renato Rosaldo: Grief and a Headhunters Rage (1989)
34. Allan Hanson: The Making of the Maori: Cultural Invention and Its Logic (1989)

Part V: Trends in Contemporary Anthropology
Gender
35. Lila Abu-Lughod: A Tale of Two Pregnancies (1995)
36. David Valentine: 'I Went to Bed with My Own Kind Once': The Erasure of Desire in the Name of Identity (2003)
37. HollyWardlow: Anger, Economy, and Female Agency: Problematizing "Prostitution" and "Sex Work" among the Huli of Papua New Guinea (2004)
Globalization
38. Arjun Appadurai: Disjuncture and the Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990)
39. Theodore Bestor: Kaiten-Zushi and Konbini: Japanese Food Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2006)
40. Jonathan Friedman and Kajsa Ekholm Friedman: Globalization as a Discourse of Hegemonic Crisis: A Global Systemic Analysis (2013)
Agency and Structure
41. Philippe Bourgois: From Jíbaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the Restructuring of Capitalism in El Barrio (1995)
42. Sherry Ortner: Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency (2006)
43. Ruth Gomberg Mun¿oz: Willing to Work: Agency and Vulnerability in an Undocumented Immigrant Network (2010)