This unusual and ambitious book will be welcomed by all who wish to understand exactly what anthropology is and what anthropologists do. It summarizes, compares, and contrasts the ideas of ten prominent anthropologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing fundamental differences in their interpretations of human behavior and in the kinds of meaning they see in human affairs.
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"Hatch provides the profession with the first comprehensive and dispassionate history of the discipline since R. H. Lowie's "History of Ethnological Theory (1937)"...Recommended for anthropology libraries, for courses in the history of anthropology, and for nonprofessionals wishing an introduction to the development of theory in anthropology." -- "Choice"
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This is a first-rate and extremely timely book, thoroughly researched, nicely organized, beautifully clear and penetrating in its central arguments. It should set the study of theoretical developments in cultural and social anthropology firmly on the table as an essential in the training of anthropologists, and a necessary element in modern liberal education.
(M. G. Smith, University College, London )
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