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Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / Jerry D. Moore, California State University, Dominguez Hills.

By: Publisher: Lanham, Maryland, USA : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2019Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xi, 381 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781442266643 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781442266650 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Visions of cultureDDC classification:
  • 306 M78 2019 23
LOC classification:
  • GN33 .M587 2019
Contents:
Introduction: What's the Point? -- Part I: Founders -- 1. Edward Tylor: The Evolution of Culture -- 2. Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society -- 3. Franz Boas: Culture in Context -- 4. Émile Durkheim: The Organic Society -- Part II: The Nature of Culture -- 5. Alfred Kroeber: Configurations of Culture -- 6. Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture -- 7. Edward Sapir: Culture, Language, and the Individual -- 8. Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture -- Part III: The Nature of Society -- 9. Marcel Mauss: Elemental Categories, Total Facts -- 10. Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture -- 11. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown: The Structures of Society -- 12. Edward Evans-Pritchard: Social Anthropology, Social History -- Part IV: Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories -- 13. Leslie White: Evolution Emergent -- 14. Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution -- 15. Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism -- 16. Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism, and History -- Part V: Structures, Symbols, and Meaning -- 17. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Structuralism -- 18. Victor Turner: Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama -- 19. Clifford Geertz: An Interpretive Anthropology -- 20. Mary Douglas: Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity -- PART VI: Structures, Practice, Agency, Power -- 21. Sherry Ortner: Symbols, Gender, Practice -- 22. Pierre Bourdieu: An Anthropology of Practice -- 23. Eric Wolf: Culture, History, Power -- 24. Marshall Sahlins: Culture Matters -- *Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories -- 25: Eric Alden Smith: Human Behavioral Ecology -- 26: John Tooby and Leda Cosmides: The Evolved Mind -- 27: Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson: Culture and Evolution--Dual-Inheritance Theory-- *Part VIII--The Ontological Turn -- 28: Tim Ingold: An Intersubjective World -- 29: Philippe Descola: Nature and Culture -- 30: Bruno Latour: The Creation of Knowledge -- Postscript: Emerging Matters.
Summary: This classic textbook offers anthropology students a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field.Summary: Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition, has been updated and expanded and provides a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of thirty 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, quotations from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked. In addition to six new chapters, Moore has updated all the profiles to incorporate recent scholarship. The book is linked to the companion work, Visions of Culture: A Reader, Second Edition, to encourage the fullest intellectual engagement for students.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: What's the Point? --
Part I: Founders --
1. Edward Tylor: The Evolution of Culture --
2. Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society --
3. Franz Boas: Culture in Context --
4. Émile Durkheim: The Organic Society --
Part II: The Nature of Culture --
5. Alfred Kroeber: Configurations of Culture --
6. Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture --
7. Edward Sapir: Culture, Language, and the Individual --
8. Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture --
Part III: The Nature of Society --
9. Marcel Mauss: Elemental Categories, Total Facts --
10. Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture --
11. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown: The Structures of Society --
12. Edward Evans-Pritchard: Social Anthropology, Social History --
Part IV: Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories --
13. Leslie White: Evolution Emergent --
14. Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution --
15. Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism --
16. Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism, and History --
Part V: Structures, Symbols, and Meaning --
17. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Structuralism --
18. Victor Turner: Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama --
19. Clifford Geertz: An Interpretive Anthropology --
20. Mary Douglas: Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity --
PART VI: Structures, Practice, Agency, Power --
21. Sherry Ortner: Symbols, Gender, Practice --
22. Pierre Bourdieu: An Anthropology of Practice --
23. Eric Wolf: Culture, History, Power --
24. Marshall Sahlins: Culture Matters --
*Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories --
25: Eric Alden Smith: Human Behavioral Ecology --
26: John Tooby and Leda Cosmides: The Evolved Mind --
27: Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson: Culture and Evolution--Dual-Inheritance Theory--
*Part VIII--The Ontological Turn --
28: Tim Ingold: An Intersubjective World --
29: Philippe Descola: Nature and Culture --
30: Bruno Latour: The Creation of Knowledge --
Postscript: Emerging Matters.

This classic textbook offers anthropology students a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field.

Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition, has been updated and expanded and provides a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of thirty 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, quotations from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked. In addition to six new chapters, Moore has updated all the profiles to incorporate recent scholarship. The book is linked to the companion work, Visions of Culture: A Reader, Second Edition, to encourage the fullest intellectual engagement for students.

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