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Author Moore, Jerry D.

Title Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / Jerry D. Moore
Published Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 283 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Pt. 1. Founders. Ch. 1. Edward Tylor: The Evolution of Culture. Ch. 2. Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society. Ch. 3. Franz Boas: Culture in Contest. Ch. 4. Emile Durkheim: The Organic Society -- Pt. 2. The Nature of Culture. Ch. 5. Alfred Kroeber: Configurations of Culture. Ch. 6. Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture. Ch. 7. Edward Sapir: Culture, Language and the Individual. Ch. 8. Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture -- Pt. 3. The Nature of Society. Ch. 9. Marcel Mauss: Elemental Categories, Total Facts. Ch. 10. Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture. Ch. 11. A. R. Radcliffe Brown: The Structures of Society. Ch. 12. Edward Evans-Pritchard: Social Anthropology, Social History -- Pt. 4. Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories. Ch. 13. Leslie White: Evolution Emergent. Ch. 14. Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution. Ch. 15. Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism. Ch. 16. Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism, and History
Pt. 5. Structures, Symbols, and Meanings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Anthropologists -- Biography.
Anthropologists -- History.
Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
Anthropology -- Methodlogy
Anthropology -- Methodology.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 96025386
ISBN 080397096X (cloth : alk. paper)
0803970978 (paperback: alk. paper)