ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN ANTHROPOLOGY
IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
VIDEOS
Anthropology on Trial (Margaret Mead) 893
Bronislaw Malinowski: Off the Veranda 4402
Franz Boas: Shackles of Tradition 7101
Firth on Firth 10323
Ishi, the Last Yahi (Alfred Kroeber) 9383
The Last Tasmanians: Extinction 425
Man Called Bee (Napoleon Chagnon) 5836
Margaret Mead, American Anthropologist 1681
Margaret Mead, An Observer Observred 13470
Margaret Mead: Coming of Age 4158
Margaret Mead: Taking Note 87
Margaret Mead's New Guinea Journal 4961
The Rise of Anthropological Theory: Haddon and Rivers 18838
To Find the Baruya Story (Maurice Godelier) 1677
Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard: Strange Beliefs 4372
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer: Fieldwork 4371
William Rivers: Everything is Relative 4373
Yanomama: A Multidisciplinary Study (Napoleon Chagnon) 4553
WEBSITES
American Anthropological Association
http://www.aaanet.org
Anthropological Theories: A Guide Prepared by Students for Students
http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/anthros.htm
Anthropology in the News
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html
Cultural Ecology by Catherine Marquette
http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/eco.htm
T. Robert Malthus' Home Page
http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Malthus/Index.htm
JOURNALS
Abstracts in Anthropology GN1 .A37
Annual Review of Anthropology GN1 .A623
American Ethnologist GN1 .A53
Anthropological Literature Z5112 .A57
Anthropological Quarterly GN1 .P7
Anthropology Today GN1 .R69
Anthropos GN1 .A7
Critique of Anthropology GN1 .C73
Cultural Anthropology GN301 .C85
Current Anthropology GN1 .C8
Current Contents: Social and Behavioral Sciences Z7163. C77
Dialectical Anthropology HX550 .A56 D53
Ethnology GN1 .E88
Great Ideas Today AY59 .G7
History of Anthropology Newsletter GN1 .N52
International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology Ref Z7161 .I593 & .I594
Journal of Anthropological Research GN1 .S6
Journal of the History of Biology QH305 .J64
Journal of the History of Ideas B1 .J826
Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers GN2 .K76
Man GN1 .M25
Philosophy of the Social Sciences H1 .P56
Research Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences B1 .R335
Reviews in Anthropology GN1 .R4
Science and Society H1 .S25
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_____, 1946, "An Interpretation of the Scope and Implications of Social Scientific Research in Human Subsistence," American Anthropologist 48:553-573.
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_____, Bonnie J. McCay, and Christina Eghenter, 1991, "Concepts of Process in Social Science Explanations," Philosophy of the Social Sciences 21(3):318-331.
_____, and Roy A. Rappaport, 1976, "Ecology: Cultural and Non-cultural," Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, James A. Clifton, ed., Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., pp. 476-497.
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Also see citations in the Survey of Ecological Anthropology document.
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CULTURAL MATERIALISM
Friedman, Joanthan, 1974, "Marxism, Structuralism, and Vulgar Materialism," Man 9(3):444-469.
Harris, Marvin, 1966, "The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle," Current Anthropology 7:51-66.
_____, 1968. The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture. New York, NY: Crowell.
_____, 1974, Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture, New York, NY: Random House.
_____, 1976. "History and Significance of the Emic/Etic Distinction," Annual Review of Anthropology 5:329-350.
_____, 1977, Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Culture, New York, NY: Random House.
_____, 1979. Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of ulture. New York, NY: Random House.
_____, 1985. Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.
_____, 1987. "Cultural Materialism: Alarums and Excursions," Waymarks, Kenneth Moore, ed., Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, pp. 107-126.
_____, 1994. "Cultural Materialism Is Alive and Well and Won't Go Away Until Something Better Comes Along," Assessing Cultural Anthropology, Robert Borofsky, ed., New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, pp. 62-76.
_____, 1996. "Cultural Materialism," Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1:277-281.
_____, 1999, Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
_____, and Eric Ross, eds., 19987, Food and Evolution: Towards a Theory of Human Food Habits, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
_____, and Eric Ross, eds., 1987, Death, Sex, and Fertility: Population Regulation in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies, New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Headland, Thomas N., Kenneth Pike, and Marvin Harris, eds., 1990. Emics and Etics: The Insider/Outsider Debate. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Johnson, Allen, 1995, "Explanation and Ground Truth: The Place of Cultural Materialism in Scientific Anthropology," Science, Materialism, and the Study of Culture, Martin F. Murphy and Maxine L. Margolis, eds., Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, pp. 1-4.
Lett, James, 1987. The Human Enterprise: A Critical Introduction to Anthropological Theory. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
_____, 1996. "Scientific Anthropology," Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co. 4:1141-1148.
_____, 1996. "Emic/Etic Distinctions," Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levnson and Melvin Ember, eds., 2:382-383.
Margolis, Maxine, and Martin Murphy, eds., 1995. Science, Materialism, and the Study of Culture. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
Price, Barbara J., 1982, "Cultural Materialism: A Theoretical Review," American Antiquity 47(4):709-741.
Ross, Eric, ed., 1980. Beyond the Myths of Culture: Essays in Cultural Materialism. New York, NY: Academic Press.
Sanderson, Stephen K., 1997, "Marvin Harris (1927- )," The Dictionary of Anthropology, Thomas Barfield, ed., Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 232-233.
Vayda, Andrew P., 1987, "Explaning What People Eat: A Review Article [Good to Eat by Marvin Harris]," Human Ecology 15(4):493-509.