Visions of culture
Subtitle: an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists
By: Jerry D. Moore.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Anthropology -- Methodology.; Anthropology -- Field work.; Anthropologists -- History.; Anthropologists -- Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Edward Tylor : the evolution of culture; value: Lewis Henry Morgan : the evolution of society; value: Franz Boas : culture in context; value: Emile Durkheim : the organic society; value: Alfred Kroeber : configurations of culture; value: Ruth Benedict : patterns of culture; value: Edward Sapir : culture, language, and the individual; value: Margaret Mead : the individual and culture; value: Marcel Mauss : elemental categories, total facts; value: Bronislaw Malinowski : the functions of culture; value: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown : the structures of society; value: Edward Evans-Pritchard : social anthropology, social history; value: Leslie White : evolution emergent; value: Julian Steward : cultural ecology and multilinear evolution; value: Marvin Harris : cultural materialism; value: Eleanor Burke Leacock : feminism, Marxism, and history; value: Claude Lévi-Strauss : structuralism; value: Victor Turner : symbols, pilgrims, and drama; value: Clifford Geertz : an interpretive anthropology; value: Mary Douglas : symbols and structures, pollution and purity; value: James Fernandez : the play of tropes.