Theories of Man and Culture

Author: Hatch, Elvin J.

Brand: Columbia University Press

Edition: Revised ed.

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 384

Release Date: 22-12-1974

Details: Product Description
This unusual and ambitious book will be welcomed by all who wish to understand exactly what anthropology is and what anthropologists do. It summarizes, compares, and contrasts the ideas of ten prominent anthropologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing fundamental differences in their interpretations of human behavior and in the kinds of meaning they see in human affairs.
Review
"Hatch provides the profession with the first comprehensive and dispassionate history of the discipline since R. H. Lowie's "History of Ethnological Theory (1937),.".Recommended for anthropology libraries, for courses in the history of anthropology, and for nonprofessionals wishing an introduction to the development of theory in anthropology." -- "Choice" "Hatch provides the profession with the first comprehensive and dispassionate history of the discipline since R. H. Lowie's History of Ethnological Theory (1937) ...Recommended for anthropology libraries, for courses in the history of anthropology, and for nonprofessionals wishing an introduction to the development of theory in anthropology." -- Choice "Hatch provides the profession with the first comprehensive and dispassionate history of the discipline since R. H. Lowie's "History of Ethnological Theory (1937)"...Recommended for anthropology libraries, for courses in the history of anthropology, and for nonprofessionals wishing an introduction to the development of theory in anthropology." -- "Choice"
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This unusual and ambitious book will be welcomed by all who wish to understand exactly what anthropology is and what anthropologists do. It summarizes, compares, and contrasts the ideas of ten prominent anthropologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing fundamental differences in their interpretations of human behavior and in the kinds of meaning they see in human affairs.

EAN: 9780231036399

Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English