Visions of culture an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists /

Visions of culture an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists /

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Main Author: Moore, Jerry D.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2012.
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
Anthropology > Methodology.
Anthropology > Fieldwork.
Anthropologists > History.
Anthropologists > Biography.
Electronic books.
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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.

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