Visions of Culture

An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists

Visions of Culture

An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists

Jerry D. Moore (Author)

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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. The key ideas of major theorists are briefly described and-unique to this 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, quotes from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked.

Part 1 Part One: Founders
Chapter 2 Chapter One: Edward Tylor: The Evolution of Culture
Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society
Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Franz Boaz: Culture in Context
Chapter 5 Chapter Four: Emile Durkheim: The Organic Society
Part 6 Part Two: The Nature of Culture
Chapter 7 Chapter Five: Alfred Kroeber: Configurations of Culture
Chapter 8 Chapter Six: Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture
Chapter 9 Chapter Seven: Edward Sapir: Culture, Language and the Individual
Chapter 10 Chapter Eight: Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture
Part 11 Part Three: The Nature of Society
Chapter 12 Chapter Nine: Marcel Mauss: Elemental Categories, Total Facts
Chapter 13 Chapter Ten: Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture
Chapter 14 Chapter Eleven: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown: The Structures of Society
Chapter 15 Chapter Twelve: Edwards Evans-Pritchard: Social Anthropology, Social History
Part 16 Part Four: Evolutionary, Adaptionist, and Materialist Theories
Chapter 17 Chapter Thirteen: Leslie White: Evolution Emergent
Chapter 18 Chapter Fourteen: Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution
Chapter 19 Chapter Fifteen: Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism
Chapter 20 Chapter Sixteen: Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism, and History
Part 21 Part Five: Structures, Symbols, and Meaning
Chapter 22 Chapter Seventeen: Claude Levi-Strauss: Structuralism
Chapter 23 Chapter Eighteen: Victor Turner: Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama
Chapter 24 Chapter Nineteen: Clifford Geertz: An Interpretive Anthropology
Chapter 25 Chapter Twenty: Mary Douglas: Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity
Part 26 Part Six: Structures, Practice, Agency, Power
Chapter 27 Chapter Twenty-one: James Fernandez: The Play of Tropes
Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty-two: Sherry Ortner: Symbols, Gender, Practice
Chapter 29 Chapter Twenty-three: Pierre Bourdieu: An Anthropology of Practice
Chapter 30 Chapter Twenty-four: Eric Wolf: Culture, History, Power
Chapter 31 Chapter Twenty-five: Marshall Sahlins: Culture Matters

Product details

Published	25 Jul 2008
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	3rd
Extent	416
ISBN	9780759112391
Imprint	AltaMira Press
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Jerry D. Moore

A rich combination of biography and theoretical summary that brings anthropology theorists to life by tying together elements of their personal, fieldwork, and theoretical dimensions.

Reed Riner, Northern Arizona University
My students and I have found that Visions of Culture helps them identify important anthropological concepts and ideas and, further, associate ideas with a person and the totality of his or her work and life.

Christina von Mayrhauser, California State University, Northridge