Department of Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences The University of Alabama

ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES:
A GUIDE PREPARED BY STUDENTS FOR STUDENTS

The guides to anthropological theories and approaches listed below have been prepared by graduate students of the University of Alabama under the direction of Dr. Michael D. Murphy.  Click here to access the outline used to compose the various contributions to this site.  Some of these pages are in an early stage of construction. As always, !Caveat Retis Viator! (Let the Net Traveller Beware!)

since 10-19-01

Student Web Pages

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

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