"I like the scope of the selections chosen, and the fact that they represent a wide range of contemporary points of view. The collection of readings fills a void in the materials available on contemporary anthropological theory. I learned some things I hadn't known." — Bernice A. Kaplan, Wayne State University

"This book was highly interesting to me, an anthropologist who has long taught ethnological theory. What I like most is the very catholic approach of the author, which successfully brings much of the range of variation in the theory of cultural anthropology to the attention of the reader. Applebaum is evenhanded in his discussions of particular theories, and the readings selected are quite apropos of the theories discussed."— Frederick C. Gamst, University of Massachusetts

Preface
I. Overview
Herbert Applebaum
1. A Quarter Century of American Anthropology
Robert F. Murphy
II. Nineteenth Century Evolutionism
Introduction: Herbert Applebaum
2. The Science of Culture
Edward B. Tylor
3. Ethnical Periods
Lewis H. Morgan
III. The Boasian Attack - Historical Particularism
Introduction: Herbert Applebaum
4. The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology
Franz Boas
5. The Nature of Culture
Alfred L. Kroeber
6. The Determinants of Culture
Robert H. Lowie
7. The Integration of Culture
Ruth Benedict
IV. Integration of Cultures - Structuralism and Functionalism
Introduction: Herbert Applebaum
8. The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis
Bronislaw Malinowski
9. On Social Structure
Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown
V. Psychological Anthropology
Introduction: Herbert Applebaum
10. The Technique of Psychodynamic Analysis
Abram Kardiner
11. Introduction: Coming of Age in Samoa
Introduction: Growing Up in Manus Society
Margaret Mead
12. Covert Culture and Administrative Problems
Clyde Kluckhohn
13. A Strategy for Psychocultural Research
John and Beatrice Whiting
VI. Twentieth Century Evolution and Ecological Anthropology
Introduction: Herbert Applebaum
14. Cultural Causality and Law: A Trial Formulation of the Development of Early Civilizations
Julian H. Steward
15. Energy and the Evolution of Culture
Leslie A. White
16. Evolutionary Epistemology and Human Values
Ronald Cohen
17. Introduction: Ecological Anthropology
Donald L. Hardesty
18. Reductionsim in Cultural Ecology: The Amazon Case
Allen Johnson
VII. Cultural Materialism and Marxism
Introduction: Herbert Applebaum
19. Theoretical Principles of Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for A Science of Culture
Marvin Harris
20. Cultural Materialism and the Problem of Probabilities
Paul J. Magnarella
21. The Scope and Boundaries of Anthropology: Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology
Maurice Godelier
22. Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology
Gerald Berthoud
VIII. Economic Anthropology and the Anthropology of Work
Introduction: Herbert Applebaum
23. Economic Anthropology
Richard F. Salisbury
24. Theoretical Issues in Economic Anthropology
George Dalton
25. The Universal Aspects of Work
Herbert Applebaum
IX. Structuralism and Cognitive Anthropology
Introduction: Herbert Applebaum
26. Social Structure: Structural Anthropology
Claude Levi-Strauss
27. Intellectual Antecedents of Levi-Strauss' Notion of Unconscious
Ino Rossi
28. Whatever Happened to Cognitive Anthropology: A Partial Review
Michael H. Agar
29. Cognition as a Residual Category in Anthropology
Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
30. The Margaret Mead Controversy: Culture, Biology, and Anthropological Inquiry
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
X. Sociobiology
Introduction: Herbert Applebaum
31."Hope" From "On Human Nature"
Edward O. Wilson
32. Anthropology and the Nature of Things
Napoleon A. Chagnon
XI. Symbolic and Humanistic Anthropology
Introduction: Herbert Applebaum
33. Symbols in African Ritual
Victor W. Turner
34. Kinship, Nationality, and Religion in American Culture: Toward a Definition of Kinship
David M. Schneider
35. Leaders and Followers: Cultural Pattern and Political Symbolism in Yugoslavia
Frank A. Dubinskas
36. Interpretive Anthropology
Clifford Geertz
XII. Concluding Remarks
Introduction: Herbert Applebaum
37. Epistle to the Anthropologists
I. C. Jarvie
Chapter Sources
Bibliography
Index