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Anthropological Theories

Late 19th Century

Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism

  • Edward Burnett Tylor
  • Lewis Henry Morgan

Sociological Thought

  • Emile Durkheim

Materialism

  • Karl Marx
  • Friedrich Engels

Early 20th Century

Historical Particularism

  • Franz Boaz
  • Alfred L. Kroeber

Functionalism

  • Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown
  • E. E. Evans-Pritchard

Culture and Personality

  • Ruth Fulton Benedict
  • Margaret Mead

Mid 20th Century

Neoevolutionism/Cultural Ecology

  • Julian Steward
  • Leslie White
  • George Peter Murdock

Neomaterialism

  • Marvin Harris
  • Roy A. Rappaport

Structuralism

  • Claude Levi-Strauss

Cognitive Anthropology

  • Stephen A. Tyler
  • Harold C. Conklin

Recent Trends

Feminist Anthropology

  • Sally Slocum
  • Eleanor Leacock
  • Ann L. Stoler

Sociobiolgical Anthropology

  • Edward Wilson

Symbolic Anthropology

  • Clifford Geertz
  • Mary Douglas
  • Victor Turner

Postmodernism

  • Renato Rosaldo
  • Vincent Crapanzano

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