Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / Jerry D. Moore.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What's the point? -- Part 1: Founders: -- 1: Edward Tylor: Evolution of culture -- 2: Lewis Henry Morgan: Evolution of society -- 3: Franz Boas: Culture in context -- 4: Emile Durkheim: Organic society -- Part 2: 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: Individual and culture -- Part 3: Nature Of Society: -- 9: Marcel Mauss: Elemental categories, total facts -- 10: Bronislaw Malinowski: Functions of culture -- 11: A R Radcliffe-Brown: Structures of society -- 12: Edward Evans-Pritchard: Social anthropology, social history -- Part 4: 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 5: Structures, Symbols, And Meaning: -- 17: Claude Levi-Strauss: Structuralism -- 18: Victor Turner: Symbols, pilgrims, and drama -- 19: Clifford Geertz: Interpretive anthropology -- 20: Mary Douglas: Symbols and structures, pollution and purity -- Part 6: Structures, Practice, Agency, Power: -- 21: James Fernandez: Play of tropes -- 22: Sherry Ortner: Symbols, gender, practice -- 23: Pierre Bourdieu: Anthropology of practice -- 24: Eric Wolf: Culture, history, power -- 25: Marshall Sahlins: Culture matters -- Postscript: Current controversies -- Index -- About the author.

Overview: This new edition of Jerry D. Moore's Visions of Culture presents anthropology students with a brief, readable, and balanced treatment of theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of major theorists, with Marshall Sahlins as a new addition, 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.