"First edition published by Routledge 2012"--Title page verso.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Of politics and paradigms -- 2. Claims and critiques of anthropological knowledge -- 3. Anthropology before anthropologists -- 4. Theory and practice to change the world -- 5. Heirs to order and progress -- 6. Spencer, Darwin, and the evolutionary tales for our time -- 7. The Boasian revolution -- 8. Culture and psychology -- 9. Functionalism, the pure and the hyphenated -- 10. Anti-structure and the collapse of empire -- 11. Evolution redux -- 12. Contemporary materialist and ecological approaches -- 13. Symbols, structures, and the "web of significance" -- 14. Postmodern political economy and sensibilities -- 15. The contemporary anthropological moment.