Antropologins teorihistoria


Kursen ger en bred introduktion till historien om antropologisk teori från mitten av artonhundratalet till 1980-talet.

Den kontextualiserar centrala antropologiska begrepp och idéer inom bredare filosofiska strömningar som har haft störst betydelse för och inverkan på utvecklingen av disciplinen. Dessa innefattar, men är inte begränsade till, evolutionism, positivism, hermeneutik, marxism, kritisk teori, strukturalism och feminism.

Särskild uppmärksamhet ägnas åt de sociala och politiska sammanhang ur vilka antropologi uppstod. Kursen betonar behovet av reflexivitet avseende de konsekvenser och krav som antropologiska metoder och teori ställer. Den kombinerar viktiga klassiska texter med sekundärlitteratur.







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HÖSTEN 2025

Books

Barnard, Alan. 2000. History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Delanty, Gerard. 2005. Social Science, 2nd Ed. New York: Open University Press.

Kuper, Adam. 2001. Culture: The Anthropologist’s Account. Harvard University Press.

McGee, Jon and Richard Warms. (M&W) 2012. Anthropological Theory. An Introductory th

History. 5 edition. Mountain View, California University Press. Selection of chapters.

Articles and online resources

Allen, J. S., & Jobson, R. C. (2016). The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties. Current Anthropology, 2, 129.

Asad, Talal, ed. 1973. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. Ithaca Press. Introduction.

Barth, Fredrik. 1965. Political Leadership among Swat Pathans. London: The Athlone Press. Introduction.

Barth, Fredrik, ed. 1969. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. Introduction.

Behar, Ruth. 1995. “Introduction: Out of Exile”, in Ruth Behar and Deborah A. Gordon, eds., Woman Writing Culture. Berkley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press.

Bloch, Maurice. 1983. Marxism and Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Selection of chapters.

Boas, Franz. 1901. The Mind of Primitive Man. American Folklore. Vol 14, pp. 1-11.

Boas, Franz. 1920. “The Methods of Ethnology“, in: R. John McGee, Richard L. Warms (2012) Anthropological Theory. An Introductory History, New York: Mc Graw Hill, pp. 117- 124.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1990. The Logic of Practice. Polity Press. Selection of chapters.

Crapanzano, Vincent. 1986. “Hermes’ Dilemma,” in Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, eds. George Marcus and James Clifford. Berkeley: University of California Press: 51-76.

Clifford, James and George Marcus, eds. 1986. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. University of California Press. Selection of chapters. Douglas, M. 2002. “The Abominations of Leviticus.” In Purity and Danger, Routledge. Available as an E-Book at SU Bibliotek: https://libris.kb.se/bib/14718864

Durkheim, E. 1984. The Division of Labor in Society. Translated by W.D. Halls. The Free Press 1984, pp. 39-132, 233-255, 402-409.

E.E. Evans-Pritchard. 1967. The Nuer. Clarendon Press. Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 3.

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books. Selection of chapters.

Geertz, C. 1973. “Common Sense as a Cultural System”. Taken from Geertz, C., Local Knowledge Chapter 4. Available as an E-Book at SU Bibliotek: https://libris.kb.se/bib/ 19547306

Haraway, Donna. 1991. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”, in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge: 183-202.

Kapferer, B. 1976. Introduction. In Transaction and Meaning. Philadelphia: Inst. for the study of human issues. Available at SU Bibliotek: https://libris.kb.se/bib/6776181? vw=full

Kuper, Adam. 2001. Culture: The Anthropologist’s Account. Harvard University Press. Lamphere, Lousie, Rayna Rapp and Gayle Rubin. 2007. “Anthropologists are Talking about Feminst Anthropology”. Ethnos 72 (3): 408-26.

Latour, Bruno. 1996. Aramis, or the Love of Technology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Selections.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1955. “Structural Study of Myth” The Journal of American Folklore, vol 68, n. 270: 428-444.

Levi-Strauss, C. 1969. Elementary Structures of Kinship. pp. 3-41. Available at SU Bibliotek: https://libris.kb.se/bib/8310681

Lutz, Catherine. 1995. “The Gender of Theory.” in Ruth Behar and Deborah A. Gordon, eds., Woman Writing Culture. Berkley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press.

Malinowski, Bronisław. 1922. Excerpts from Argonauts of the Western Pacific. In McGee, Jon and Richard Warms, 2012, Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. Mountain View: California University Press.

Marcus, George and James Clifford (eds.). 1986. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press. Selection of chapters.

Marx, K. 1867. “The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret”. Capital, Vol I, Chapter 1, Section 4. Available as an E-Book at SU Bibliotek: https://libris.kb.se/bib/9777042

Mauss, Marcel. Excerpts from The Gift. In McGee, Jon and Richard Warms, 2012,

Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. Mountain View: California University Press. (This text is included in other editions as well.)

Meillassoux, C. 1974. “From Reproduction to Production: A Marxist Approach to Economic Anthropology.” Economy and Society 1(1).

Ortner, Sherry. 1972. Is female to male as nature is to culture?” Feminist Studies , Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 5- 31. In McGee, Jon and Richard Warms, 2012, Anthropological Theory:

An Introductory History. Mountain View: California University Press. (This text is included in other editions as well.)

Ortner, Sherry. 1986. “Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties”. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 26 (1): 126-66.

Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. 1952. Structure and Function in Primitive Society. Routledge and Kegan Paul. Selection of chapters.

Ricoeur, Paul. 1971. "The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text," in Social Research 38, pp. 529-55.

Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere, eds. 1974. Woman, Culture, and Society. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press. Selection of chapters.

Sahlins, M. 1976. “Anthropology and Two Marxisms.” In Culture and Practical Reason. Chicago Press.

Saussure, F. 1916. Course in General Linguistics. Pp. 110-121 Available at SU Bibliotek: https://libris.kb.se/bib/8162077

Shankman, Paul. 1984. “The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz”. Current Anthropology, 25 (3): 261-79.

Strathern, Marilyn. 1987. “An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology”. Signs 12 (2): 266-92.

Turner, E. 1992. Experiencing Ritual (selections). University of Pennsylvania Press.

Warms, Richard (2012) Anthropological Theory. An Introductory History, New York: McGraw Hill, pp. 211-219.

Werbner, Richard. 1984. “The Manchester School in South-Central Africa”. Annual Review of Anthropology 13: 157-85.

Recommended reading:

Mogstad, H & Tse, L-H. (2018). Decolonizing anthropology: Reflections from Cambridge. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 36 (2), 53–72.

Zoe Todd. (2018). Decolonial Turn 2.0. Anthrodendum.

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