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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)

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AltaMira Press
Language
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Lanham

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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

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Open Library
OL25252703M
Internet Archive
visionsofculture0000moor_c4f2
ISBN 13
9780759122178, 9780759122185, 9780759122192
LCCN
2012007088

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