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Informationen zum Autor Jerry D. Moore is professor and chair of anthropology at CSU, Dominguez Hills. Klappentext Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader is an anthology of articles coordinated for use with Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists. Each selection is prefaced with a brief introduction about the anthropologist and the text. Each primary text is followed by a section titled "Queries and Connections," a series of questions designed to help students focus on the central issues in each text and to relate them to other readings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Introduction1. Edward Tylor, from Primitive Culture2. Lewis Henry Morgan, from Ancient Society3. Franz Boas, from The Methods of Ethnology4. Émile Durkheim, from Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (Excerpts)Part II: The Nature of Culture 5. Alfred Kroeber, from Disposal of the Dead6. Ruth Benedict, from Configurations of Culture in North America7. Edward Sapir, from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech8. Margaret Mead, from More Comprehensive Field MethodsPart III: The Nature of Society9. Marcel Mauss, from The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies10. Bronislaw Malinowski, from The Primitive Economics of the Trobriand Islanders11. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, from The Comparative Method in Social Anthropology12. Edward E. Evans-Pritchard, from Social Anthropology: Past and PresentPart IV. Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories13. Leslie A. White, from Energy and the Evolution of Culture14. Julian Steward, from Linguistic Distributions and Political Groups of the Great Basin Shoshoneans15. Marvin Harris, from Anthropology and the Theoretical and Paradigmatic Significance of the Collapse of Soviet and East European Communism16. Eleanor Burke Leacock, from Women's Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social EvolutionPart V: Structures, Symbols, and Meaning 17. Claude Lévi-Strauss, from The Structural Study of Myth18. Victor Turner, from Symbols in African Ritual19. Clifford Geertz, from Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example20. Mary Douglas, from Animals in Lele Religious SymbolismPart VI. Structures, Practice, Agency, Power21. James W. Fernandez, from Symbolic Consensus in a Fang Reformative Cult22. Sherry B. Ortner, from On Key Symbols23. Pierre Bourdieu, from The Berber House of the World Reversed24. Eric R. Wolf, from Types of Latin American Peasantry: A Preliminary Discussion25. Marshall D. Sahlins, from Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-Man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia...
