Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists / Edition 4

Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists / Edition 4

by Jerry D. Moore
ISBN-10:
0759122180
ISBN-13:
9780759122185
Pub. Date:
05/24/2012
Publisher:
AltaMira Press
ISBN-10:
0759122180
ISBN-13:
9780759122185
Pub. Date:
05/24/2012
Publisher:
AltaMira Press
Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists / Edition 4

Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists / Edition 4

by Jerry D. Moore
$50.0 Current price is , Original price is $50.0. You
$50.00 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    This item is available online through Marketplace sellers.
  • PICK UP IN STORE
    Check Availability at Nearby Stores
$18.32 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM

    Temporarily Out of Stock Online

    Please check back later for updated availability.

    • Condition: Good
    Note: Access code and/or supplemental material are not guaranteed to be included with used textbook.

This item is available online through Marketplace sellers.


Overview

This new edition of Jerry D. Moore's Visions of Culture presents anthropology students with a brief, readable, and balanced treatment of theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of major theorists, with Marshall Sahlins as a new addition, are briefly described and-unique to this textbook-linked to the biographical and fieldwork experiences that helped shape their theories. The impact of each scholar on contemporary anthropology is presented, along with numerous examples, quotes from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked.

About the Author:
Jerry D. Moore is professor of anthropology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and author of Cultural Landscapes in the Ancient Andes: Archaeologies of Place


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780759122185
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 05/24/2012
Edition description: Fourth Edition
Pages: 376
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jerry D. Moore is professor of anthropology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and author of Cultural Landscapes in the Ancient Andes: Archaeologies of Place .

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: What's the Point?     xi
Founders     1
Edward Tylor: The Evolution of Culture     5
Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society     18
Franz Boas: Culture in Context     33
Emile Durkheim: The Organic Society     46
The Nature of Culture     61
Alfred Kroeber: Configurations of Culture     65
Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture     78
Edward Sapir: Culture, Language, and the Individual     88
Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture     104
The Nature of Society     117
Marcel Mauss: Elemental Categories, Total Facts     121
Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture     134
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown: The Structures of Society     147
Edward Evans-Pritchard: Social Anthropology, Social History     161
Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories     175
Leslie White: Evolution Emergent     179
Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution     194
Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism     204
Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism, and History     217
Structures, Symbols, and Meaning     227
Claude Levi-Strauss: Structuralism     231
Victor Turner: Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama     247
Clifford Geertz: An Interpretive Anthropology     259
Mary Douglas: Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity     272
Structures, Practice, Agency, Power     289
James Fernandez: The Play of Tropes     295
Sherry Ortner: Symbols, Gender, Practice     307
Pierre Bourdieu: An Anthropology of Practice     325
Eric Wolf: Culture, History, Power     343
Marshall Sahlins: Culture Matters     365
Postscript: Current Controversies     385
Index     393
About the Author     399
From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews