Department of Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences The University of Alabama
ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES:
A GUIDE PREPARED BY STUDENTS FOR STUDENTS
These guides to anthropological theories and approaches have been prepared by graduate students of the University of Alabama under the direction of Dr. Michael D. Murphy. They are works in progress and, as always, it is wise to heed the invocation: Caveat Retis Viator (Let the Net Traveler Beware!)
Social Evolutionism
Diffusionism and Acculturation
Historicism
Functionalism
Manchester School
Culture & Personality
American Materialism
Cultural Materialism
Ecological Anthropology
Cross-Cultural Analysis
Cognitive Anthropology
Marxist Anthropology
Feminist Anthropology
Structuralism
Symbolic & Interpretive Anthropologies
Postmodernism & Its Critics
For a similar site offering student summaries
of different approaches to cultural anthropology, see the University of Indiana's Theory in Anthropology
since 10-19-01
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