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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: Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, [1997], ©1997.

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283 pages; 24 cm

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Contents

Pt. 1. Founders. Ch. 1. Edward Tylor: The Evolution of Culture. Ch. 2. Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society. Ch. 3. Franz Boas: Culture in Contest. Ch. 4. Emile Durkheim: The Organic Society -- Pt. 2. The Nature of Culture. Ch. 5. Alfred Kroeber: Configurations of Culture. Ch. 6. Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture. Ch. 7. Edward Sapir: Culture, Language and the Individual. Ch. 8. Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture -- Pt. 3. The Nature of Society. Ch. 9. Marcel Mauss: Elemental Categories, Total Facts. Ch. 10. Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture. Ch. 11. A. R. Radcliffe Brown: The Structures of Society. Ch. 12. Edward Evans-Pritchard: Social Anthropology, Social History -- Pt. 4. Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories. Ch. 13. Leslie White: Evolution Emergent. Ch. 14. Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution. Ch. 15. Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism.
Ch. 16. Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism, and History -- Pt. 5. Structures, Symbols, and Meanings. Ch. 17. Claude Levi-Strauss: Structuralism. Ch. 18. Victor Turner: Symbols, Pilgrims and Drama. Ch. 19. Clifford Geertz: An Interpretive Anthropology. Ch. 20. Mary Douglas: Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity. Ch. 21. James Fernandez: The Play of Tropes.

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96025386

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