Author Barrett, Stanley R. Title Anthropology : a student's guide to theory and method / Stanley R. Barrett. Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1996.

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
TRUMAN General Collection	GN25 .B39 1996	AVAILABLE

	Preface
1	Unleashing the Anthropologist: A Historical Overview					3
		General Anthropology				5
		Social Anthropology				8
		Basic Concepts				10
		Criteria for Ethnographic Quality				23
		Colonialism: The Critical Dimension				24
		Crisis or Opportunity?				30
		Science or Art?				31
		Relationship between Anthropology and other Disciplines				32
		How to Learn the Fundamentals of a Discipline				38
		Key Terms				39
		Organization of the Book				43
2	Theory					47
		Evolutionism				47
		Historical Particularism				52
		Structural Functionalism				59
3	Method					69
		Methods Literature				70
		Fieldwork Situation				73
		Basic Assumptions				74
		Basic Techniques and Related Elements				75
		Human Relations Area Files				78
		Redfield-Lewis Controversy				78
4	Theory					84
		Cultural Ecology (and Neo-Evolutionism)				84
		Conflict Theory				92
		Social Action				99
5	Method					107
		Methods Literature				107
		Fieldwork Situation				112
		Some New Rules of Thumb				113
		Formal Analysis				117
		Case Study One: A West African Utopia				118
		Case Study Two: The Radical Right in Canada				128
6	Theory					141
		Structuralism				142
		Postmodernism				150
		Feminist Anthropology				163
		Cultural Feminism versus Deconstructionism				172
		Feminism and Marxism				174
		Feminism and Postmodernism				174
7	Method					179
		Methods Literature				180
		Fieldwork Situation				183
		Case Study Three: Social Change in Rural Ontario				185
		Case Study Four: Gender and Violence in Corsica				193
		Backlash against Feminist Methodology				195
		Are Women Better Fieldworkers than Men?				197
		Anthropology at Home				203
8	Last Frontier: How to Analyse Qualitative Data					207
		Literature on Qualitative Analysis				209
		Modest Alternative				215
		Model				216
		Burst of Insight				220
		Writing				228
9	Taming the Anthropologist: The World Ahead					236
	Bibliography					241
	Index					265

Description xii, 270 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-263) and index. Subjects Anthropology. Anthropology -- Philosophy. Anthropology -- Methodology. ISBN 0802008488 (cloth) 0802078338 (paper) OCLC # 35091796 36746723 LCCN 96166244 Orig. Rec# TRUMANBAX9355