Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: What's the Point?......Page 12
Part I: Founders
......Page 18
1. Edward Tylor: The Evolution of Culture
......Page 22
2. Lewis Henry Morgan: The Evolution of Society
......Page 35
3. Franz Boas: Culture in Context
......Page 50
4. Émile Durkhaim: The Organic Society......Page 63
Part II: The Nature of Culture
......Page 78
5. Alfred Kroeber: Configurations of Culture
......Page 82
6. Ruth Benedict: Patterns of Culture
......Page 95
7. Edward Sapir: Culture, Language, and the Individual
......Page 105
8. Margaret Mead: The Individual and Culture
......Page 121
Part III: The Nature of Society
......Page 134
9. Marcel Mauss: Elemental Categories, Total Facts
......Page 138
10. Bronislaw Malinowski: The Functions of Culture
......Page 151
11. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown: The Structures of Society
......Page 164
12. Edward Evans-Pritchard: Social Anthropology, Social History
......Page 178
Part IV: Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories
......Page 192
13. Leslie White: Evolution Emergent
......Page 196
14. Julian Steward: Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution
......Page 211
15. Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism
......Page 221
16. Eleanor Burke Leacock: Feminism, Marxism, and History
......Page 234
Part V: Structures, Symbols, and Meaning
......Page 244
17. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Structuralism......Page 248
18. Victor Turner: Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama
......Page 264
19. Clifford Geertz: An Interpretive Anthropology
......Page 276
20. Mary Douglas: Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity
......Page 289
Part VI: Structures, Practice, Agency, Power
......Page 306
21. James Fernandez: The Play of Tropes
......Page 312
22. Sherry Ortner: Symbols, Gender, Practice
......Page 324
23. Pierre Bourdieu: An Anthropology of Practice
......Page 342
24. Eric Wolf: Culture, History, Power
......Page 360
25. Marshall Sahlins: Culture Matters
......Page 382
Postscript: Current Controversies
......Page 402
Index......Page 410
About the Author......Page 416