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Visions of culture

an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists

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An edition of Visions of culture (2012)

Visions of culture

an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists

4th ed.
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Overview: This new edition of Jerry D. Moore's Visions of Culture presents anthropology students with a brief, readable, and balanced treatment of theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of major theorists, with Marshall Sahlins as a new addition, are briefly described and-unique to this textbook-linked to the biographical and fieldwork experiences that helped shape their theories. The impact of each scholar on contemporary anthropology is presented, along with numerous examples, quotes from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked.

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AltaMira Press
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English
Pages
359

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Table of Contents

Introduction: What's the Point?
Part I. Founders
Edward Tylor : The Evolution of Culture
Lewis Henry Morgan : The Evolution of Society
Franz Boas : Culture in Context
Émile Durkheim : The Organic Society
Part II. The Nature of Culture
Alfred Kroeber : Configurations of Culture
Ruth Benedict : Patterns of Culture
Edward Sapir : Culture, Language, and the Individual
Margaret Mead : The Individual and Culture
Part III. The Nature of Society
Marcel Mauss : Elemental Categories, Total Facts
Bronislaw Malinowski : The Functions of Culture
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown : The Structures of Society
Edward Evans-Pritchard : Social Anthropology, Social History
Part IV. Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories
Leslie White : Evolution Emergent
Julian Steward : Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution
Marvin Harris : Cultural Materialism
Eleanor Burke Leacock : Feminism, Marxism, and History
Part V. Structures, Symbols, and Meaning
Claude Lévi-Strauss : Structuralism
Victor Turner : Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama
Clifford Geertz : An Interpretive Anthropology
Mary Douglas : Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity
Part VI. Structures, Practice, Agency, Power
James Fernandez : The Play of Tropes
Sherry Ortner : Symbols, Gender, Practice
Pierre Bourdieu : An Anthropology of Practice
Eric Wolf : Culture, History, Power
Marshall Sahlins : Culture Matters
Postscript: Current Controversies.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
301
Library of Congress
GN33 .M587 2012, GN33.M587 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
359

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25252703M
Internet Archive
visionsofculture0000moor_c4f2
ISBN 13
9780759122178, 9780759122185, 9780759122192
LCCN
2012007088
OCLC/WorldCat
780415660

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