Visions of Culture

An Annotated Reader
Herausgeber: Moore, Jerry D

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Produktbeschreibung

Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader is an anthology of articles coordinated for use with Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists. Each selection is prefaced with a brief introduction about the anthropologist and the text. Each primary text is followed by a section titled "Queries and Connections," a series of questions designed to help students focus on the central issues in each text and to relate them to other readings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 925g
• ISBN-13: 9780759118546
• ISBN-10: 075911854X
• Artikelnr.: 26055877

Autorenporträt

Jerry D. Moore is professor and chair of anthropology at CSU, Dominguez Hills.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction 1. Edward Tylor
from Primitive Culture 2. Lewis Henry Morgan
from Ancient Society 3. Franz Boas
from The Methods of Ethnology 4. Émile Durkheim
from Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (Excerpts) Part II: The Nature of Culture 5. Alfred Kroeber
from Disposal of the Dead 6. Ruth Benedict
from Configurations of Culture in North America 7. Edward Sapir
from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech 8. Margaret Mead
from More Comprehensive Field Methods Part III: The Nature of Society 9. Marcel Mauss
from The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies 10. Bronislaw Malinowski
from The Primitive Economics of the Trobriand Islanders 11. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
from The Comparative Method in Social Anthropology 12. Edward E. Evans-Pritchard
from Social Anthropology: Past and Present Part IV. Evolutionary
Adaptationist
and Materialist Theories 13. Leslie A. White
from Energy and the Evolution of Culture 14. Julian Steward
from Linguistic Distributions and Political Groups of the Great Basin Shoshoneans 15. Marvin Harris
from Anthropology and the Theoretical and Paradigmatic Significance of the Collapse of Soviet and East European Communism 16. Eleanor Burke Leacock
from Women's Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution Part V: Structures
Symbols
and Meaning 17. Claude Lévi-Strauss
from The Structural Study of Myth 18. Victor Turner
from Symbols in African Ritual 19. Clifford Geertz
from Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example 20. Mary Douglas
from Animals in Lele Religious Symbolism Part VI. Structures
Practice
Agency
Power 21. James W. Fernandez
from Symbolic Consensus in a Fang Reformative Cult 22. Sherry B. Ortner
from On Key Symbols 23. Pierre Bourdieu
from The Berber House of the World Reversed 24. Eric R. Wolf
from Types of Latin American Peasantry: A Preliminary Discussion 25. Marshall D. Sahlins
from Poor Man
Rich Man
Big-Man
Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia