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Genre/Form: | Biography History Biographie Biographies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Moore, Jerry D. Visions of culture. Walnut Creek, Ca. : Altamira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004 (OCoLC)891457908 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jerry D Moore |
ISBN: | 0759104107 9780759104105 0759104115 9780759104112 |
OCLC Number: | 53331674 |
Description: | xv, 379 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | Jerry D. Moore. |
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"Moore's book provides readers with great biographical insights into the development of cultural anthropology." - Rosemary Conover, Weber State University; "Moore's book is a clear and concise review of the greatest theorists in anthropology." - J. Montgomery Roper, Grinnell College" Read more...
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