Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology are rich subjects with deep connections in the social and physical sciences. Theory in social and Cultural Anthropology is a much-needed source providing quick overviews of key theories and theorists within the field.

Table of Contents

• Volume 1
• Editorial Board
• Reader's Guide
• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Abu-Lughod, Lila
• Alliance-Descent Debate
• Althusser, Louis
• American Anthropological Association
• American Museum of Natural History
• Anderson, Benedict
• Animism, Animatism
• Appadurai, Arjun
• Applied Anthropology
• Area Studies
• Aristotle
• Asad, Talal
• Autoethnography
• Bachofen, Johann J.
• Bailey, Frederick G.
• Bakhtin, Mikhail M.
• Barth, Fredrik
• Barthes, Roland
• Bastian, Adolf
• Bataille, Georges
• Bateson, Gregory
• Baudrillard, Jean
• Benedict, Ruth F.
• Benjamin, Walter
• Binford, Lewis R.
• Biography/Life Writing
• Bloch, Maurice
• Bloomfield, Leonard
• Boas, Franz
• Bohannan, Paul
• Bourdieu, Pierre
• Burke, Kenneth
• Butler, Judith
• Cambridge University
• Carneiro, Robert L.
• Chicago World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
• Childhood
• Chodorow, Nancy
• Chomsky, Noam
• Clifford, James
• Cognitive Anthropology
• Columbia University
• Communitas
• Comparative Linguistics
• Comparative Method
• Comte, Auguste
• Condorcet, Jean-Antoine Nicolas de Caritat
• Critical Theory
• Cultural Ecology
• Cultural Materialism
• Cultural Relativism
• Cultural Transmission
• Culture and Personality
• Culture Area Approach
• Darwin, Charles
• Dawkins, Richard
• Deconstruction
• Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari
• Dependency Theory
• Derrida, Jacques
• Descriptive Linguistics
• Diffusionism, Hyperdiffusionism, Kulturkreise
• Discourse Theory
• Douglas, Mary
• Du Bois, W. E. B.
• DuBois, Cora
• Dumont, Louis
• Dundes, Alan
• Durkheim, Émile
• Economic Anthropology
• Ethnography of Speaking
• Ethnohistory
• Ethnomethodology
• Ethnoscience/New Ethnography
• Ethology, Human
• Evans-Pritchard, E. E.
• Evolutionary Anthropology
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Face-to-Face Interaction
• Fanon, Frantz
• Feminist Anthropology
• Ferguson, Adam
• Firth, Raymond
• Fischer, Michael
• Formalism/Substantivism
• Fortes, Meyer
• Fortune, Reo
• Foster, George M.
• Foucault, Michel
• Frankfurt School
• Frazer, James G.
• Freud, Sigmund
• Fried, Morton
• Frobenius, Leo
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg
• Game Theory
• Geertz, Clifford
• Geffray, Christian
• Gender and Anthropology
• Gender Diversity
• Gene-Culture Coevolution
• Generative Grammar
• Gennep, Arnold van
• Gift Exchange
• Girard, René
• Globalization Theory
• Gluckman, Max
• Godelier, Maurice
• Goffman, Erving
• Goldenweiser, Alexander A.
• Goodenough, Ward H.
• Goody, Jack
• Graebner, Fritz
• Gramsci, Antonio
• Great Exhibition of 1851 (Crystal Palace)
• Greenberg, Joseph
• Griaule, Marcel
• Gumperz, John J.
• Habermas, Jürgen
• Habitus
• Haddon, Alfred C.
• Hall, Edward T.
• Hallowell, A. Irving
• Harris, Marvin
• Harvey, David
• Hegel, Georg W. F.
• Hermeneutics
• Herskovits, Melville
• Hertz, Robert
• Historical Particularism
• Hobbes, Thomas
• Hocart, Arthur M.
• Human Behavioral Ecology
• Human Relations Area Files, Cross-Cultural Studies
• Human Universals
• Humanistic Anthropology
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Husserl, Edmund
• Hymes, Dell
• Institut d'Ethnologie (Paris)
• Jakobson, Roman O.
• Jameson, Fredric
• Kardiner, Abram
• Kluckhohn, Clyde
• Kroeber, Alfred L.
• Kuper, Hilda B.
• Labov, William
• Lacan, Jacques
• Lafitau, Joseph-François
• Lamphere, Louise
• L'Année Sociologique
• Latour, Bruno
• Leach, Edmund
• Leacock, Eleanor
• LeVine, Robert
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude
• Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien
• Lewis, Oscar
• Lienhardt, Godfrey
• Linton, Ralph
• London School of Economics
• Lounsbury, Floyd
• Lowie, Robert
• Lubbock, John
• Lyotard, Jean-François
• Maine, Henry James
• Mair, Lucy
• Malinowski, Bronislaw
• Malthus, Thomas R.
• Manchester School
• Marcus, George
• Marx, Karl
• Marxist Anthropology
• Material Production, Theories of
• Mauss, Marcel
• McLennan, John
• Mead, George Herbert
• Mead, Margaret
• Meillassoux, Claude
• Mintz, Sidney
• Mobility
• Modernism
• Montesquieu, Comte de
• Morgan, Lewis Henry
• Müller, Max
• Murdock, George Peter
• Musée de l'Homme
• Myth, Theories of
• Nader, Laura
• Nash, June
• Nationalism, Transnationalism
• Native Anthropology, Native Anthropologist
• Needham, Rodney
• Neo-Boasianism
• Neo-Kantianism
• Network Theory/Social Network Analysis
• Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Anthropology
• Ortner, Sherry
• Oxford University
• Parsons, Elsie C.
• Parsons, Talcott
• Phenomenology
• Pike, Kenneth
• Pitt Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane Fox
• Plato
• Polanyi, Karl
• Political Economy
• Popper, Karl
• Postcolonial Theory
• Postmodernism
• Poststructuralism
• Practice Theory
• Prague School of Linguistics
• Psychological Anthropology
• Public Sphere
• Queer Theory
• Rabinow, Paul
• Race
• Radcliffe-Brown, A. R.
• Radin, Paul
• Rappaport, Roy
• Rational Choice Theory
• Redfield, Robert
• Religion
• Rhodes-Livingstone Institute
• Richards, Audrey
• Rites de Passage
• Rivers, W. H. R.
• Rivet, Paul
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Róheim, Géza
• Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist
• Rosaldo, Renato
• Rouch, Jean
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
• Royal Anthropological Institute
• Sacrifice
• Sahlins, Marshall
• Said, Edward
• Sanday, Peggy Reeves
• Sapir, Edward
• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Neo-Whorfianism
• Saussure, Ferdinand de
• Scapes
• Schapera, Isaac
• Scheper-Hughes, Nancy
• Schneider, David M.
• Seligman, Charles Gabriel
• Semiotics
• Service, Elman R.
• Simmel, Georg
• Smith, Adam
• Smith, Grafton Elliot
• Smith, Neil
• Smith, William Robertson
• Smithsonian Institution
• Social Constructionism
• Social Studies of Science
• Sociolinguistics
• Soviet Anthropology
• Spencer, Herbert
• Spencer, Walter Baldwin, and Francis James Gillen
• Sperber, Dan
• Spiro, Melford
• Srinivas, M. N.
• Steward, Julian
• Strathern, Marilyn
• Structural Functionalism
• Structural Marxism
• Structuralism
• Subaltern Studies
• Subjectivity
• Sustainability
• Swadesh, Morris
• Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
• Symbolic Interactionism
• Systems Theory
• Tambiah, Stanley
• Tax, Sol
• Tedlock, Barbara and Dennis
• Thick Description
• Torres Straits Expedition
• Turner, Victor W.
• Tyler, Stephen A.
• Tylor, Edward Burnett
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Michigan
• Urban Studies
• Utilitarianism
• Vayda, Andrew P.
• Veblen, Thorstein B.
• Visual Anthropology
• Voltaire
• Wagley, Charles
• Wallace, Alfred R.
• Wallace, Anthony F. C.
• Wallerstein, Immanuel
• Weber, Max
• Wenner-Gren Foundation
• Westermarck, Edward
• White, Leslie
• Whorf, Benjamin Lee
• Wilson, Edward O.
• Wilson, Monica
• Wittfogel, Karl
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig
• Wolf, Eric
• World-Systems Theory
• Wundt, Wilhelm
• Chronology of Theory in Anthropology