Jerry D. Moore

Visions of Culture

An Annotated Reader
Herausgeber: Moore, Jerry D

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Produktbeschreibung

Visions of Culture: A Reader, Second Edition, has been revised and expanded with new selections and is coordinated for use with Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition. 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. NEW TO THIS EDITION Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories 25: Leda Cosmides and John Toobey, from The Evolutionary Primer 26: Eric Alden Smith, from Why Do Good Hunters Have Higher Reproductive Success? 27. Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson, from "Introduction" from The Origin and Evolution of Culture Part VIII-The Ontological Turn 28: Philippe Descola, from Beyond Nature and Culture 29: Tim Ingold, from Anthropology beyond Humanity 30: Bruno Latour, from "Introduction" from Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781442270572
• ISBN-10: 1442270578
• Artikelnr.: 53020234

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jerry D. Moore

Inhaltsangabe

Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader
Second Edition Edited by Jerry D. Moore 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 and from Eighteen Professions 6. Ruth Benedict
from Configurations of Culture in North America 7. Edward Sapir
from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech and from Language and Environment (Excerpts) 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 and from Cultural Causality and Law: A Trial Formulation of the Development of Early Civilizations 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. Sherry B. Ortner
from On Key Symbols 22. Pierre Bourdieu
from The Berber House or the World Reversed 23. Eric R. Wolf
from Types of Latin American Peasantry: A Preliminary Discussion (Excerpt) and from Distinguished Lecture: Facing power--Old Insights
New Questions 24. Marshall D. Sahlins
from Poor Man
Rich Man
Big-Man
Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia and from What is Anthropological Enlightenment? Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century *Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories *25. Eric Alden Smith
from Why Do Good Hunters Have Higher Reproductive Success? *26. Leda Cosmides and John Toobey
from The Evolutionary Primer *27. Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson
from "Introduction" from The Origin and Evolution of Culture Part VIII-The Ontological Turn *28. Tim Ingold
from Anthropology Beyond Humanity *29. Philippe Descola
from Beyond Nature and Culture *30. Bruno Latour
from "Introduction" from Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory *Denotes new articles