Chapter 1 The Concept of Anthropology and the Early Development of It
What's Anthropology?
Founders of Anthropology
The Main Contributions of Edward Tylor
Lewis Henry Morgan：the Evolution of Society
Franz Boas：Cultures not Culture
Emile Durkheim：the Relationship between Individual and Society
Further readings：
1. The Science of Culture
2. What Is a Social Fact? Eile Durkheim（ 1858 -1917）
3. The Methods of Ethnology Franz Boas （1858 -1942）
Chapter 2 The Individual and Culture
Alfred Kroeber： Configurations of Culture
Ruth Benedict ：Patterns of Culture
Margaret Mead：The Personality and Culture
Edward Sapir： Culture， Language and the Individual
Bronislaw Malinowski：The Functions of Culture
Further readings：
1. Psychological Types in the Cultures of the Southwest Ruth Fulton Benedict（ 1887- 1948）
2. Introduction to Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies Margaret Mead （ 1901 - 1978）
3. The Essentials of the Kula Bronislaw Malinowski （ 1884 - 1942 ）
Chapter 3 The Nature of Society
Marcel Mauss ： Social Exchange
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown：The Structure of Society
Edward Evans-Pritchard ： Social Anthropology， Social History
Further readings：
1. Excerpts from The Gift Marcel Mauss（lg72 -1950）
2. The Mother's Brother in South Africaa A. R.Radcliffe-Brown（ 1881 - 1955 ）
Chapter 4 Cultural Ecology， Materialism and Neoevolutionary Theories
Leslie White：Evolution Reemergent and Cuhurology
Julian Steward：Cultural Ecology and Muhilinear Evolution
Marvin Harris ： Cultural Materialism
Further reading：
1. The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle Marvin Harris（ 1927 - 2001 ）
Chapter 5 Structures， Symbols and Meaning
Claude L6vi-Strauss ： Structuralism
Victor Turner ： Symbols and Pilgrims
Clifford Geertz：An Interpretive Anthropology
Mary Douglas ： Pollution and Purity
Further reading：
1. Deep Play：Notes on the Balinese Cockfight Clifford Geertz （ 1926 - 2006 ）
Chapter 6 Structures，Practices and Agency
Sherry Ortner： Symbols， Gender， Practice
Pierre Bourdieu ： Practice and Habitus ： an Anthropology of Practice
Further reading ：
1. Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? Sherry B. Ortner（1941—— ）
Chapter 7 Research Methods in Anthropology
Different Levels of Methods
Variables
Preparing for Research
The Literature Search
Sampling
Interviewing
Participant Observation
Brief Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
Chapter 8 Ethnic Group and Ethnicity
The Concepts and Theories of Ethnicity
Ethnicity， Religion， and Language
Ethnicity in the Modern World
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