Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Walnut Creek, CA :
AltaMira Press,
[2004]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Edward Tylor : the evolution of culture
- Lewis Henry Morgan : the evolution of society
- Franz Boas: culture in context
- Emile Durkheim : a science of society
- Alfred Kroeber : configurations of culture
- Ruth Benedict : patterns of culture
- Edward Sapir : culture, language, and the individual
- Margaret Mead : the individual and culture
- Marcel Mauss : elemental categories, total facts
- Bronislaw Malinowski : the functions of culture
- A.R. Radcliffe-Brown : the structures of society
- Edward Evans-Pritchard : social anthropology, social history
- Leslie White: evolution emergent
- Julian Steward : cultural ecology and multilinear evolution
- Marvin Harris : cultural materialism
- Eleanor Burke Leacock : feminism, marxism, and history
- Claude Lévi-Strauss : structuralism
- Victor Turner : symbols, pilgrims, and drama
- Clifford Geertz : an interpretive anthropology
- Mary Douglas : symbols 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.