The history of anthropology

This book covers the full history of social and cultural anthropology in one volume. Starting with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring key figures like Morgan and Tylor, and providing a comprehensive overview of the discipline in the twentieth century. The majority of the book is dedicated to topics and debates characteristic of post-World War I anthropology, from structural functions through structuralism to hermeneutics, cultural environment, discourse analysis, and recently globalization and postmodernism. The authors consistently emphasize the need to see changes in the discipline in a broader social, political, and intellectual context.