{"product_id":"visions-of-culture-9781442266650","title":"Visions of Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisions 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 andunique to this textbooklinked 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 EDITIONPart VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories 25: Eric Alden Smith: Human Behavioral Ecology26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisions 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","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039983698263,"sku":"9781442266650","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442266650.jpg?v=1750945431","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/visions-of-culture-9781442266650","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}