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Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition, has been updated and expanded and provides a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of thirty major theorists 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, quotations from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked. In addition to six new chapters, Moore has updated all the profiles to incorporate recent scholarship. The book is linked to the companion work, Visions of Culture: A Reader, Second Edition, to encourage the fullest intellectual engagement for students. NEW TO THIS EDITION Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories 25: Eric Alden Smith: Human Behavioral Ecology 26: John Tooby and Leda Cosmides: The Evolved Mind 27: Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson: Culture and Evolution-Dual-Inheritance Theory Part VIII-The Ontological Turn 28: Tim Ingold: An Intersubjective World 29: Philippe Descola: Nature and Culture 30: Bruno Latour: The Creation of Knowledge
List of contents
Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition
Jerry D. Moore
Introduction: What's the Point?
Part I: Founders
1. Edward Tylor: The Evolution of Culture
2. Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society
3. Franz Boas: Culture in Context
4. Émile Durkheim: The Organic Society
Part II: The Nature of Culture
5. Alfred Kroeber: Configurations of Culture
6. Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture
7. Edward Sapir: Culture, Language, and the Individual
8. Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture
Part III: The Nature of Society
9. Marcel Mauss: Elemental Categories, Total Facts
10. Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture
11. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown: The Structures of Society
12. Edward Evans-Pritchard: Social Anthropology, Social History
Part IV: Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories
13. Leslie White: Evolution Emergent
14. Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution
15. Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism
16. Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism, and History
Part V: Structures, Symbols, and Meaning
17. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Structuralism
18. Victor Turner: Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama
19. Clifford Geertz: An Interpretive Anthropology
20. Mary Douglas: Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity
PART VI: Structures, Practice, Agency, Power
21. Sherry Ortner: Symbols, Gender, Practice
22. Pierre Bourdieu: An Anthropology of Practice
23. Eric Wolf: Culture, History, Power
24. Marshall Sahlins: Culture Matters
*Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories
*25: Eric Alden Smith: Human Behavioral Ecology
*26: John Tooby and Leda Cosmides: The Evolved Mind
*27: Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson: Culture and Evolution-Dual-Inheritance Theory
*Part VIII-The Ontological Turn
*28: Tim Ingold: An Intersubjective World
*29: Philippe Descola: Nature and Culture
*30: Bruno Latour: The Creation of Knowledge
Postscript: Current Controversies
Index
*Denotes new parts and theorists
About the author
By Jerry D. Moore
Summary
This classic textbook offers anthropology students a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field.
