Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists by Moore, Jerry D instant download

Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists by Moore, Jerry D instant download

xv, 379 pages ; 23 cm, Annotation, Includes bibliographical references and index, Edward Tylor : the evolution of culture -- Lewis Henry Morgan : the evolution of society -- Franz Boas: culture in context -- Emile Durkheim : the organic society -- 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 -- The nature of society -- Marcel Mauss : elemental categories, total facts -- Bronislaw Malinowski : the functions of culture -- R. Radcliffe-Brown : the structures of society -- Edward Evans-Pritchard : social anthropology, social history -- 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 -- Structures, symbols, and meaning -- Claude Levi-Strauss : structuralism -- Victor Turner : symbols, pilgrims, and drama -- Clifford Geertz : an interpretive anthropology -- Mary Douglas : dymbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity -- James Fernandez : the play of Tropes -- Sherry Ortner : symbols, gender, practice -- Pierre Bourdieu : an anthropology of practice -- Eric Wolf : culture, history, power -- Postscript : current controversies