Antropolojide Tarih ve Teori

by Alan Barnard, Sevgi Doğan (Translator)

Alan Barnard antropolojide teorilerin soykütüğünü çıkarıyor. Bunun için de düşünce okullarını inceliyor ve bu teorilerin baş etmeye çalıştığı sorunlaı temelinde, alandaki büyük tartışmaların tarihsel bağlamının izini sürüyor. Antropolojinin öncülerini, bütün biçimleriyle evrimciliği, yayılmacılığı ve kültür alanı teorilerini, işlevselciliği ve yapısal-işlevselciliği, eylem-merkezli teorileri; süreçsel ve Marksist perspektifleri, rölativizme farklı yaklaşımları, yapısalcılık ile post-yapısalcılığı ve son dönemdeki postmodern bakış açısını artılarıyla eksileriyle anlatıyor.

Genres: Anthropology, Nonfiction, History, Theory, Philosophy, Academic, Social Science

320 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2000

About the author

Alan Barnard is a world class communications strategist with a vast experience in devising and executing successful landmark campaigns. He made a major impact during his ten years working for the Labour Party and played a pivotal role in their 1997 general election victory. His work as Labour's Director of Campaigns and Elections helped change political campaigning in the United Kingdom. Now, as a founding Director of BBM Campaigns, he is taking campaigning into new territories.

Reviews

[Kacper Havemeister · Rating 4 out of 5]

Czemu przeczytałem to po zaliczeniu przedmiotu?
Dobre streszczenie najważniejszych teorii w antropologii, ale chyba zbyt krótkie. Jednak słowniczek na końcu książki na plus.

[Lila · Rating 4 out of 5]

dobry dodatek do wykładów

[littlemiao · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good overview of the history of anthropological theory. I read it years and years and years ago for an undergraduate class, and it was a natural choice to re-read now that I am getting back into anthropology. The history of anthropological theory cannot fit comfortably into 250 pages, but the book manages to provide significant detail in a few brief pages while still being fairly comprehensive. If nothing else, it is a great bibliographic resource. For whatever reason, I like it more now than I did when I first read it. Maybe because I had forgotten so much.

In Barnard's words: "I do not claim to be presenting *the history* of anthropology, but only one possible history among many. More accurately, I am presenting snippets of history chosen and juxtaposed to show the complex connections among the different ideas which make up, not the history of anthropology, but anthropological theory." The roughly chronological, theme-based chapters help to communicate this complexity.

[Candace · Rating 2 out of 5]

I hesitated even to rate this book. It was required reading for a graduate class in a field other than anthropology, but I barely made it through. It didn't feel like a book for someone unfamiliar with the field of anthropology, for the author seemed to presume a level of knowledge about the subject on the part of the reader that I certainly do not have. This book may be great for those in the field, but I don't believe it is well-suited to a lay reader.

[Katarzyna Boo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked up the polish translation from a friend's shelf as a refresher (and because I wanted to see how certain terms would be translated into my native tongue given I studied in English). It is a nice overview, a bit outdated by now – a new edition with a discussion of the ontological turn and the anthropology effect. I get a feeling that it probably would not work well as an introduction to the discipline, but for someone who studied anthropology before it is a good reminder. The overview itself not very extensive but leaves you with a lot of reference points and demonstrates linkages between anthropological lines of thought and intellectual trajectories at a more elaborate level than you would usually get in an overview text, which I personally found very useful. I also really enjoyed the biographical touches.

[Lea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Majko moja ovo je bilo naporno. Prvo, mislim da je knjiga krivo naslovljena jer je u njoj samo jedan dio povijesti antropologije i točniji naziv bi trebao biti "Povijest teorije antropologije". Tada mi nebi palo napamet uzet tu knjigu u ruke i poštedila bi se ovog mučnog čitanja. Okej, dijelom je i moja krivnja jer sam tvrdoglava i morala sam dovršit započeto. Doslovce sam čitala 10 strana svaki dan mjesec dana i to mi je bilo previše. Drugo, meni je knjiga zbunjujuća i definitivno nije za početnike jer ja većinu toga nisam razumijela, a niti se autor trudio objasniti. Puno je tih teorijskih pravaca kroz povijest i autor uzima u obzir da smo upoznati s njima. Treće, unatoč očitom nesviđanju dajem ocijenu 3 jer vjerujem da je knjiga dobra nekome koga zanima razvoj teorijskih pravaca u antropologiji, ali svejedno nije pristupačna početnicima.

[Repa Kustipia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Buku ini menghadirkan penjelasan dasar yang koheren dan mudah dipahami dari perspektif sejarah dan perkembangan teorinya seperti : tradisi antropologi, teori evolusi, teori difusi, teori fungsionalisme struktural, perspektif marxisme, Feminisme, dan pendekatan interpretive dan pos-modernisme.

[Krismon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Useful for me.

[Buse]

Öldüm öldüm dirildim. Puanımı midterme göre vereceğim :D

[Marcos Buccellato · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a small survey that allows the reader to get an idea of the origins and genealogy of anthropology. Here one can take a glimpse at some of the major problems that motivated the evolution of the discipline and some of the most salient personalities and schools that offered different solutions to them. The book is quite structured and chronological making the book quite useful as a textbook but maybe a little dull to read.

Este libre es un breve resumen que le permite al lector hacerse una idea sobre los origines y la genesis de la antropología. En el mismo, uno puede dar un vistazo a algunos de los principales problemas que motivaron el desarrollo de la antropología como disciplina y algunas de los principales referentes y escuelas que ofrecieron distintas soluciones para los mismos. El libro esta bastante estructurado y ordenado cronologicamente lo que lo hace bastante útil como libro de texto pero un poco pesado para leer.

[Ariel Taivalkoski · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had to read this for a graduate survey of social theory. This book gives a really good overview of the history of social theory, though at times the author is, in my opinion, a bit too brief about some of the theorists. But this is really just to save space, as the book covers over three hundred years of social theory. I felt like I got a really good introduction to a lot of the most prominent theorists, including a very good simplified idea of what their theories consisted of.

Overall, this is a great supplement to the reading of the original theorists, as you can get more of a background to their life story and theoretical methods.

[The Glassed And The Furious · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was one book of my reading list for a college course and as such it was quite good. It has a nice overview over the different theories of anthropology and how they changed over time. It's definitely good to have this nearby when studying various athropology theories but then again I doubt I woult have ever picked up this book if it wouldn't have been for my seminar in college.
As a informative help for educational reasons? Yes, absolutely.
For pleasure? No, not really.

[Liriel McMahon · Rating 4 out of 5]

A concise and easily readable history of theory in anthropology - I enjoyed it.

[Kyle · Rating 4 out of 5]

A concise and very accessible account of anthropological theory. Although there wasn't much detail concerning theorists, approaches or ideas, I appreciated the broad scope of this book.

[João · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great introductory guide for sociocultural anthropology. It resumes the most important topics about the history of the theoric concepts.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this in my Ethnomusicology course as an intro to prominent trends, thinkers, etc in Anthropology. Well written, enjoyable to read, and a good overview of the disciple.

[Abby Ang · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful overview. At this point, kind of dated...

[Aaron Downey]

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