Visions of culture
Subtitle: an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists
By: Jerry D. Moore.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Anthropology -- Methodology.; Anthropology -- Field work.; Anthropologists -- History.; Anthropologists -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Edward Tylor : the evolution of culture; title: Lewis Henry Morgan : the evolution of society; title: Franz Boas: culture in context; title: Emile Durkheim : a science of society; 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Postscript : current controversies.