Chapter 1 The Concept of Anthropology and the Early Development of It

What's Anthropology?

Founders of Anthropology

The Main Contributions of Edward Tylor

Lewis Henry Morgan:the Evolution of Society

Franz Boas:Cultures not Culture

？mile Durkheim:the Relationship between Individual and Society

Further readings:

1．The Science of Culture

2．What Is a Social Fact? ？mile Durkheim（1858-1917）

3．The Methods of Ethnology Franz Boas（1858-1942）

Chapter 2 The Individual and Culture

Alfred Kroeber:Configurations of Culture

Ruth Benedict:Patterns of Culture

Margaret Mead:The Personality and Culture

Edward Sapir:Culture,Language and the Individual

Bronislaw Malinowski:The Functions of Culture

Further readings:

1．Psychological Types in the Cultures of the Southwest Ruth Fulton Benedict（1887-1948）

2．Introduction to Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies Margaret Mead（1901-1978）

3．The Essentials of the Kula Bronislaw Malinowski（1884-1942）

Chapter 3 The Nature of Society

Marcel Mauss:Social Exchange

A.R.Radcliffe-Brown:The Structure of Society

Edward Evans-Pritchard:Social Anthropology,Social History

Further readings:

1．Excerptsfrom The Gift Marcel Mauss（1872-1950）

2．The Mother's Brother in South Afica a A.R.Radcliffe-Brown（1881-1955）

Chapter 4 Cultural Ecology,Materialism and Neoevolutionary Theories

Leslie White:Evolution Reemergent and Culturology

Julian Steward:Cuhural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution

Marvin Harris:Cultural Materialism

Further reading:

1．The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle Marvin Harris（1927-2001）

Chapter 5 Structures,Symbols and Meaning

Claude Lévi-Strauss:Structuralism

Victor Turner:Symbols and Pilgrims

Clifford Geertz:An Interpretive Anthropology

Mary Douglas:Pollution and Purity

Further reading:

1．Deep Play:Notes on the Balinese Cockfight Clifford Geertz（1926-2006）

Chapter 6 Structures,Practices and Agency

Sherry Ortner:Symbols,Gender,Practice

Pierre Bourdieu:Practice and Habitus:an Anthropology of Practice

Further reading:

1．Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?Sherry B.Ortner（1941—）

Chapter 7 Research Methods in Anthropology

Different Levels of Methods

Variables

Preparing for Research

The Literature Search

Sampling

Interviewing

Participant Observation

Brief Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

Chapter 8 Ethnic Group and Ethnicity

The Concepts and Theories of Ethnicity

Ethnicity,Religion,and Language

Ethnicity in the Moderm World