Visions of culture
Subtitle: an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists
By: Jerry D. Moore.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Altamira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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 : the organic society; title: 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: The nature of society; title: Marcel Mauss : elemental categories, total facts; title: Bronislaw Malinowski : the functions of culture; title: R. Radcliffe-Brown : the structures of society; title: Edward Evans-Pritchard : social anthropology, social history; title: 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: Structures, symbols, and meaning; title: Claude Levi-Strauss : structuralism; title: Victor Turner : symbols, pilgrims, and drama; title: Clifford Geertz : an interpretive anthropology; title: Mary Douglas : dymbols 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.