Visions of Culture

An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition

Jerry D. Moore

Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition, has been updated and expanded and provides a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of thirty 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, quotations from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked. In addition to six new chapters, Moore has updated all the profiles to incorporate recent scholarship. The book is linked to the companion work, Visions of Culture: A Reader, Second Edition, to encourage the fullest intellectual engagement for students.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories
25: Eric Alden Smith: Human Behavioral Ecology
26: John Tooby and Leda Cosmides: The Evolved Mind
27: Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson: Culture and Evolution—Dual-Inheritance Theory

Part VIII—The Ontological Turn
28: Tim Ingold: An Intersubjective World
29: Philippe Descola: Nature and Culture
30: Bruno Latour: The Creation of Knowledge

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 400 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4422-6664-3 • Hardback • November 2018 • $154.00 • (£119.00)

978-1-4422-6665-0 • Paperback • November 2018 • $70.00 • (£54.00)

978-1-4422-6666-7 • eBook • November 2018 • $66.50 • (£51.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Anthropology / General, Social Science / Anthropology / Theory and Methods

Courses: Anthropology; Research Methods & Theory

Visions of Culture

An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition

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Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition, has been updated and expanded and provides a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of thirty 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, quotations from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked. In addition to six new chapters, Moore has updated all the profiles to incorporate recent scholarship. The book is linked to the companion work, Visions of Culture: A Reader, Second Edition, to encourage the fullest intellectual engagement for students.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories
25: Eric Alden Smith: Human Behavioral Ecology
26: John Tooby and Leda Cosmides: The Evolved Mind
27: Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson: Culture and Evolution—Dual-Inheritance Theory

Part VIII—The Ontological Turn
28: Tim Ingold: An Intersubjective World
29: Philippe Descola: Nature and Culture
30: Bruno Latour: The Creation of Knowledge

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 400 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4422-6664-3 • Hardback • November 2018 • $154.00 • (£119.00)

978-1-4422-6665-0 • Paperback • November 2018 • $70.00 • (£54.00)

978-1-4422-6666-7 • eBook • November 2018 • $66.50 • (£51.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Anthropology / General, Social Science / Anthropology / Theory and Methods

Courses: Anthropology; Research Methods & Theory

Author

Jerry D. Moore isan archaeologist, writer, editor, and professor of anthropology at California State University Dominguez Hill. Moore has conducted archaeological research in Peru, Mexico, and southern California. He is the author of seven books, and numerous articles and reviews.

Table of Contents

Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition
Jerry D. Moore

Introduction: What’s the Point?
Part I: Founders
1. Edward Tylor: The Evolution of Culture
2. Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society
3. Franz Boas: Culture in Context
4. Émile Durkheim: The Organic Society

Part II: The Nature of Culture
5. Alfred Kroeber: Configurations of Culture
6. Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture
7. Edward Sapir: Culture, Language, and the Individual
8. Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture

Part III: The Nature of Society
9. Marcel Mauss: Elemental Categories, Total Facts
10. Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture
11. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown: The Structures of Society
12. Edward Evans-Pritchard: Social Anthropology, Social History

Part IV: Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories
13. Leslie White: Evolution Emergent
14. Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution
15. Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism
16. Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism, and History

Part V: Structures, Symbols, and Meaning
17. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Structuralism
18. Victor Turner: Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama
19. Clifford Geertz: An Interpretive Anthropology
20. Mary Douglas: Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity

PART VI: Structures, Practice, Agency, Power
21. Sherry Ortner: Symbols, Gender, Practice
22. Pierre Bourdieu: An Anthropology of Practice
23. Eric Wolf: Culture, History, Power
24. Marshall Sahlins: Culture Matters
*Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories
*25: Eric Alden Smith: Human Behavioral Ecology
*26: John Tooby and Leda Cosmides: The Evolved Mind
*27: Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson: Culture and Evolution—Dual-Inheritance Theory
*Part VIII—The Ontological Turn
*28: Tim Ingold: An Intersubjective World
*29: Philippe Descola: Nature and Culture
*30: Bruno Latour: The Creation of Knowledge

Postscript: Current Controversies
Index

*Denotes new parts and theorists

Features

NEW Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories
25: Eric Alden Smith: Human Behavioral Ecology
26: John Tooby and Leda Cosmides: The Evolved Mind
27: Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson: Culture and Evolution—Dual-Inheritance Theory

NEW Part VIII—The Ontological Turn
28: Tim Ingold: An Intersubjective World
29: Philippe Descola: Nature and Culture
30: Bruno Latour: The Creation of Knowledge