Research Catalog

Title

Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / Jerry D. Moore.

Author

Moore, Jerry D.

Publication

Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xv, 379 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Anthropology > Methodology
• Anthropology > Field work
• Anthropologists > History
• Anthropologists > Biography
• Anthropology > Fieldwork

Genre/Form

• Biographie.
• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Edward Tylor : the evolution of culture -- Lewis Henry Morgan : the evolution of society -- Franz Boas : culture in context -- Emile Durkheim : a science of society -- Alfred Kroeber : configurations of culture -- Ruth Benedict : patterns of culture -- Edward Sapir : culture, language, and the individual -- Margaret Mead : the individual and culture -- 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 -- Leslie White: evolution emergent -- Julian Steward : cultural ecology and multilinear evolution -- Marvin Harris : cultural materialism -- Eleanor Burke Leacock : feminism, marxism, and history -- Claude Lévi-Strauss : structuralism -- Victor Turner : symbols, pilgrims, and drama -- Clifford Geertz : an interpretive anthropology -- Mary Douglas : symbols and structures, pollution and purity -- James Fernandez : the play of Tropes -- Sherry Ortner : symbols, gender, practice -- Pierre Bourdieu : an anthropology of practice -- Eric Wolf : culture, history, power -- Postscript : current controversies.

ISBN

• 0759104107 (alk. paper)
• 0759104115 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003023842

OCLC

• 53331674
• SCSB-10133642

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library