This is the first work to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. The authors provide a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, from the cultural theories of Herder, Morgan and Tylor to the often neglected contributions of the German scholars of the period. The work of early twentieth-century anthropologist such as Boas and Malinowski in the US and Britain, and the sociology of Durkheim and Mauss in France, is ...
