History of Anthropological Theory, fall 2026

An index of materials for the course

An index of materials for the course

1. Situating Anthropology: What is anthropological theory? What are the aims of anthropology?
2. Dawn of Anthropology in the Western Hemisphere: When did anthropology begin in the Western Hemisphere?
3. The Enlightenment and the Social Scientific Project: Anthropology and the Enlightenment
4. Science and Classification
5. Nineteenth Century Evolutionary Anthropology: Ninetenth-Century Evolutionary Anthropology
6. Nineteenth Century Ethnography: Morgan and Mooney: Nineteenth-century North American ethnography by Mooney and Morgan
7. Marx and Historical Materialism
8. Physical Anthropology and Archaeology: History and Early Methods
9. Cultural Anthropology / Boas: Boas, Rivet, and the End of the Craniometry of Race
10. Du Bois and Vindicationism
11. Twentieth Century Ethnographic Methods
12. Mead, Gender and Sexuality: Margaret Mead
13. The Gift and Symbolic Anthropology: Gifts, Boundaries, and Taboos