Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / Jerry D. Moore.

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, 359 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, [2012]

Summary:

Fourth Edition

This classic textbook, now in its fourth edition, offers anthropology students a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of twenty-five major theorists are briefly described and-unique to this textbook-linked to the biographical and fieldwork experiences that helped shape their 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, quotations from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked. Jerry D. Moore has also updated many of the profiles to take recent scholarship into account, and this new edition is strongly tried to the companion book, Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader, to encourage the fullest intellectual engagement for students. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: What's the Point?

Part I. Founders

Edward Tylor : The Evolution of Culture

Lewis Henry Morgan : The Evolution of Society

Franz Boas : Culture in Context

Émile Durkheim : The Organic Society

Part II. The Nature of Culture

Alfred Kroeber : Configurations of Culture

Ruth Benedict : Patterns of Culture

Edward Sapir : Culture, Language, and the Individual

Margaret Mead : The Individual and Culture

Part III. The Nature of Society

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

Part IV. Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories

Leslie White : Evolution Emergent

Julian Steward : Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution

Marvin Harris : Cultural Materialism

Eleanor Burke Leacock : Feminism, Marxism, and History

Part V. Structures, Symbols, and Meaning

Claude Lévi-Strauss : Structuralism

Victor Turner : Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama

Clifford Geertz : An Interpretive Anthropology

Mary Douglas : Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity

Part VI. Structures, Practice, Agency, Power

James Fernandez : The Play of Tropes

Sherry Ortner : Symbols, Gender, Practice

Pierre Bourdieu : An Anthropology of Practice

Eric Wolf : Culture, History, Power

Marshall Sahlins : Culture Matters

Postscript: Current Controversies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780759122178

0759122172

9780759122185

0759122180

9780759122192

0759122199

OCLC:

780415660