Visions of culture an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists /
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| Language: | English |
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AltaMira Press,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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Table of 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
- �Emile 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 L�evi-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.