Visions of Culture

This new edition of Jerry D. Moore's Visions of Culture presents introductory anthropology students with a brief, readable, and balanced treatment of theoretical developments in the field.

This new edition of Jerry D. Moore's Visions of Culture presents introductory anthropology students with a brief, readable, and balanced treatment of theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of 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, quotes from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked.

Chapter 1
Chapter One: Founders
Chapter 2
Chapter One: Edward Tylor: The Evolution of Culture
Chapter 3
Chapter Two: Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society
Chapter 4
Chapter Three: Franz Boaz: Culture in Context
Chapter 5
Chapter Four: Emile Durkheim: The Organic Society
Chapter 6
Chapter Two: The Nature of Culture
Chapter 7
Chapter Five: Alfred Kroeber: Configurations of Culture
Chapter 8
Chapter Six: Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture
Chapter 9
Chapter Seven: Edward Sapir: Culture, Language and the Individual
Chapter 10
Chapter Eight: Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture
Chapter 11
Chapter Three: The Nature of Society
Chapter 12
Chapter Nine: Marcel Mauss: Elemental Categories, Total Facts
Chapter 13
Chapter Ten: Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture
Chapter 14
Chapter Eleven: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown: The Structures of Society
Chapter 15
Chapter Twelve: Edwards Evans-Pritchard: Social Anthropology, Social History
Chapter 16
Chapter Four: Evolutionary, Adaptionist, and Materialist Theories
Chapter 17
Chapter Thirteen: Leslie White: Evolution Emergent
Chapter 18
Chapter Fourteen: Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution
Chapter 19
Chapter Fifteen: Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism
Chapter 20
Chapter Sixteen: Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism, and History
Chapter 21
Chapter Five: Structures, Symbols, and Meaning
Chapter 22
Chapter Seventeen: Claude Levi-Strauss: Structuralism
Chapter 23
Chapter Eighteen: Victor Turner: Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama
Chapter 24
Chapter Nineteen: Clifford Geertz: An Interpretive Anthropology
Chapter 25
Chapter Twenty: Mary Douglas: Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity
Chapter 26
Chapter Six: Structures, Practice, Agency, Power
Chapter 27
Chapter Twenty-one: James Fernandez: The Play of Tropes
Chapter 28
Chapter Twenty-two: Sherry Ortner: Symbols, Gender, Practice
Chapter 29
Chapter Twenty-three: Pierre Bourdieu: An Anthropology of Practice
Chapter 30
Chapter Twenty-four: Eric Wolf: Culture, History, Power
Chapter 31
Chapter Twenty-five: Marshall Sahlins: Culture Matters