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Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists
- Title
- Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / Jerry D. Moore.
- Author
- Moore, Jerry D.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 359 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-5397
- ISBN
- 9780759122178 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0759122172 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780759122185 (paper : alk. paper)
- 0759122180 (paper : alk. paper)
- 9780759122192 (electronic)
- 0759122199 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2012007088
- OCLC
- YBP 2012007088
- Author
- Moore, Jerry D.
- Title
- Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / Jerry D. Moore.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2012.
- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-5397