A N T H R O P O L O G I C A L .T H E O R Y .T I M E L I N E
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Significant Inventions and/or significant time periods
*Persons plotted by time of influence and/or time of major publications, Repeated names refer to multiple publications.
**Click the names or events plotted on the timeline for a description. Mouseover paradigms for a description.
Most information taken from Erikson & Murphy's A History of Anthropological Theory, Wikipedia, and Michael Wesch's Anthropological Theory course @ Kansas State University. Some compatibility issues have been reported with Safari, I apologize and am working to fix this.
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Universal History (mid to late 1700s)
Marxism (1840s)
Classical/Unilineal Cultural Evolution (1860s)
American Cultural Anthropology (1920s)
British Social Anthropology (1940s)
Cognitive Anthropology (1950s)
Cultural Neo-Evolutionism (1950s/60s)
P E R S P E C T I V E S
French Structural Anthropology (1960s)
Transactionalism (1960s)
Cultural Materialism (1970s)
Symbolic & Interpretive Anthropology (1970/80s)
Political Economy (1970s)
Feminist Anthropology (1980s/90s)
Postmodernism (1980s/90s)