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An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists
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Visions of Culture
An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists
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An accessible, balanced undergraduate textbook on anthropological theory. Jerry D. Moore's Visions of Culture presents students with a brief, readable treatment of theoretical developments in the field from the days of Tylor and Morgan through contemporary postmodernists and cultural materialists. The key ideas of 21 major theorists are briefly described and linked to biographical and fieldwork experiences that helped shape those theories. An assessment of the scholar's impact on contemporary theorizing is presented, along with numerous explanatory examples, illuminating quotes from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked. An ideal book for classes on the theory or the history of anthropology.
Table of Contents
chapter 2 About the Author
chapter 3 I. FOUNDERS
chapter 4 Edward Tylor and the Evolution of Culture
chapter 5 Lewis Henry Morgan and the Evolution of Society
chapter 6 Franz Boaz, Culture in Context
chapter 7 Emile Durkheim and the Organic Society
chapter 8 II. THE NATURE OF CULTURE
chapter 9 Alfred Kroeber, Configuations of Culture
chapter 10 Ruth Benedict and Patterns of Culture
chapter 11 Edward Sapir, Culture, Language and the Individual
chapter 12 Margaret Mead, The Individual and Culture
chapter 13 III. THE NATURE OF SOCIETY
chapter 14 Marcel Mauss, Elemental Categories, Total Facts
chapter 15 Malinowski, The Functions of Culture
chapter 16 A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, The Structures of Society
chapter 17 Evans-Pritchard, Social Anthropology, Social History
chapter 18 IV: EVOLUTIONARY, ADAPTATIONIST, AND MATERIALIST THEORIES
chapter 19 Leslie White, Evolution Emergent
chapter 20 Julian Steward, Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution
chapter 21 Marvin Harris and Cultural Materialism
chapter 22 Eleanor Burke Leacock, Feminism, Marxism, and History
chapter 23 V. STRUCTURES, SYMBOLS, AND MEANINGS
chapter 24 Claude Levi-Strauss and Structuralism
chapter 25 Victor Turner, Symbols, Pilgrims and Drama
chapter 26 Clifford Geertz, An Interpretive Anthroplogy
chapter 27 Mary Douglas, Symbols and Structures, Pollutions and Purity
chapter 28 James Fernandez, The Play of Tropes
chapter 29 Postscript, Current Controversies
chapter 30 Acknowledgement
Product details
| Published | 01 Jan 2000 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 400 |
| ISBN | 9780585189963 |
| Imprint | AltaMira Press |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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