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Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / Jerry D. Moore.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Jerry D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Methodology.
- Anthropology.
- Anthropology--Fieldwork.
- Anthropologists--History.
- Anthropologists.
- Anthropologists--Biography.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 379 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- This new edition of Jerry D. Moore's Visions of Culture presents introductory anthropology students with a brief, readable, and balanced treatment of theoretical developments in the field. New to this edition are pieces on Sherry Ortner, Pierre Bourdieu and Eric Wolf, an Epilogue that describes key current debates over theory. This is an ideal text for classes on the theory or the history of anthropology.
- Contents:
- Edward Tylor : the evolution of culture
- Lewis Henry Morgan : the evolution of society
- Franz Boas: culture in context
- Emile Durkheim : a science of society
- Alfred Kroeber : configurations of culture
- Ruth Benedict : patterns of culture
- Edward Sapir : culture, language, and the individual
- Margaret Mead : the individual and culture
- Marcel Mauss : elemental categories, total facts
- Bronislaw Malinowski : the functions of culture
- A.R. Radcliffe-Brown : the structures of society
- Edward Evans-Pritchard : social anthropology, social history
- Leslie White: evolution emergent
- Julian Steward : cultural ecology and multilinear evolution
- Marvin Harris : cultural materialism
- Eleanor Burke Leacock : feminism, marxism, and history
- Claude Lévi-Strauss : structuralism
- Victor Turner : symbols, pilgrims, and drama
- Clifford Geertz : an interpretive anthropology
- Mary Douglas : symbols 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0759104107
- 0759104115
- OCLC:
- 53331674
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