The rise of anthropological theory : a history of theories of culture / Marvin Harris ; with an introduction by Maxine L. Margolis.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 688-764) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction -- 2 Enlightenment -- 3 Reaction and Recovery: The Early Nineteenth Century -- 4 Rise of Racial Determinism -- 5 Spencerism -- 6 Evolutionism: Methods -- 7 The Evolutionists: Results -- 8 Dialectical Materialism -- 9 Historical Particularism: Boas -- 10 The Boasian Milieu -- 11 The Ethnographic Basis of Particularism -- 12 Kroeber -- 13 Lowie -- 14 Diffusionism -- 15 Culture and Personality: Pre-Freudian -- 16 Culture and Personality: Freudian -- 17 Culture and Personality: New Directions -- 18 French Structuralism -- 19 British Social Anthropology -- 20 Emics, Etics, and the New Ethnography -- 21 Statistical Survey and the Nomothetic Revival -- 22 Cultural Materialism: General Evolution -- 23 Cultural Materialism: Cultural Ecology.