Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / Jerry D. Moore.

Author/creator Moore, Jerry D.
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoWalnut Creek, Ca. : Altamira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004.
Descriptionxv, 379 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Anthropology--Methodology.
Anthropology--Fieldwork.
Anthropologists--History.
Anthropologists--Biography.

Contents Edward Tylor : the evolution of culture -- Lewis Henry Morgan : the evolution of society -- Franz Boas: culture in context -- Emile Durkheim : the organic society -- 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 -- The nature of society -- Marcel Mauss : elemental categories, total facts -- Bronislaw Malinowski : the functions of culture -- R. Radcliffe-Brown : the structures of society -- Edward Evans-Pritchard : social anthropology, social history -- 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 -- Structures, symbols, and meaning -- Claude Levi-Strauss : structuralism -- Victor Turner : symbols, pilgrims, and drama -- Clifford Geertz : an interpretive anthropology -- Mary Douglas : dymbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity -- James Fernandez : the play of Tropes -- Sherry Ortner : symbols, gender, practice -- Pierre Bourdieu : an anthropology of practice -- Eric Wolf : culture, history, power -- Postscript : current controversies.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003023842
ISBN0759104107 (alk. paper)
ISBN0759104115 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN33 .M587 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold