Notes on the Editors x

General Introduction xi
Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders

Acknowledgments xvi

Anthropology and Epistemology 1
Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders

PART I 19

Section 1 Culture and Behavior 21

1 The Aims of Anthropological Research 22
Franz Boas

2 The Concept of Culture in Science 32
A. L. Kroeber

3 Problems and Methods of Approach 37
Gregory Bateson

4 The Individual and the Pattern of Culture 43
Ruth Benedict

Section 2 Structure and System 53

5 Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts 54
Emile Durkheim

6 On Social Structure 64
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

7 Introduction to Political Systems of Highland Burma 70
E. R. Leach

8 Social Structure 78
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Section 3 Function and Environment 89

9 The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis 90
Bronislaw Malinowski

10 The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology 102
Julian H. Steward

11 Energy and the Evolution of Culture 109
Leslie A. White

12 Ecology, Cultural and Noncultural 123
Andrew P. Vayda and Roy A. Rappaport

Section 4 Methods and Objects 129

13 Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology 130
J. H. M. Beattie

14 Anthropological Data and Social Reality 141
Ladislav Holy and Milan Stuchlik

15 Objectification Objectified 151
Pierre Bourdieu

PART II 163

Section 5 Meanings as Objects of Study 165

16 Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture 166
Clifford Geertz

17 Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology 173
Talal Asad

18 Subjectivity and Cultural Critique 186
Sherry B. Ortner

Section 6 Language and Method 191

19 Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology 192
Claude Lévi-Strauss

20 Ordinary Language and Human Action 204
Malcolm Crick

21 Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science 210
Maurice Bloch

Section 7 Cognition, Psychology, and Neuroanthropology 221

22 Towards an Integration of Ethnography, History and the Cognitive Science of Religion 222
Harvey Whitehouse

23 Linguistic and Cultural Variables in the Psychology of Numeracy 226
Charles Stafford

24 Subjectivity 231
T. M. Luhrmann

25 Why the Behavioural Sciences Need the Concept of the Culture-Ready Brain 236
Charles Whitehead

Section 8 Bodies of Knowledges 245

26 Knowledge of the Body 246
Michael Jackson

27 The End of the Body? 260
Emily Martin

28 Hybridity: Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary 276
Lesley Sharp

PART III 283

Section 9 Coherence and Contingency 285

29 Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism 286
Max Weber

30 Introduction to Europe and the People Without History 293
Eric R. Wolf

31 Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution 308
Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff

32 Epochal Structures I: Reconstructing Historical Materialism 322
Donald L. Donham

33 Structures and the Habitus 332
Pierre Bourdieu

Section 10 Universalisms and Domain Terms 343

34 Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body: Some Anthropological Interventions in a Long Conversation 344
Michael Lambek

35 So Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? 357
Sherry B. Ortner

36 Global Anxieties: Concept-Metaphors and Pre-theoretical Commitments in Anthropology 363
Henrietta L. Moore

Section 11 Perspectives and Their Logics 377

37 The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism 378
Robert