Visions of culture
Subtitle: an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists
By: Jerry D. Moore
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780759122178; 9780759122185; 9780759122192
Subjects: Anthropology; Methodology; Fieldwork; History; Biography; Anthropologists
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What's the Point?; title: Part I. Founders; title: Edward Tylor : The Evolution of Culture; title: Lewis Henry Morgan : The Evolution of Society; title: Franz Boas : Culture in Context; title: Émile Durkheim : The Organic Society; title: Part II. The Nature of Culture; title: Alfred Kroeber : Configurations of Culture; title: Ruth Benedict : Patterns of Culture; title: Edward Sapir : Culture, Language, and the Individual; title: Margaret Mead : The Individual and Culture; title: Part III. The Nature of Society; title: Marcel Mauss : Elemental Categories, Total Facts; title: Bronislaw Malinowski : The Functions of Culture; title: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown : The Structures of Society; title: Edward Evans-Pritchard : Social Anthropology, Social History; title: Part IV. Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories; title: Leslie White : Evolution Emergent; title: Julian Steward : Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution; title: Marvin Harris : Cultural Materialism; title: Eleanor Burke Leacock : Feminism, Marxism, and History; title: Part V. Structures, Symbols, and Meaning; title: Claude Lévi-Strauss : Structuralism; title: Victor Turner : Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama; title: Clifford Geertz : An Interpretive Anthropology; title: Mary Douglas : Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity; title: Part VI. Structures, Practice, Agency, Power; title: James Fernandez : The Play of Tropes; title: Sherry Ortner : Symbols, Gender, Practice; title: Pierre Bourdieu : An Anthropology of Practice; title: Eric Wolf : Culture, History, Power; title: Marshall Sahlins : Culture Matters; title: Postscript: Current Controversies.