Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists /
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Walnut Creek, Calif. :
AltaMira Press,
c1997
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Table of Contents:
- Edward Tylor : the evolution of culture
- Lewis Henry Morgan : the evolution of society
- Franz Boas : culture in context
- Emile Durkheim : the organic society
- Alfred Kroeber : configurations of culture
- Ruth Benedict : patterns of culture
- Edward Sapir : culture, language, and the individual
- Margaret Mead : the individual and culture
- Marcel Mauss : elemental categories, total facts
- Bronislaw Malinowski : the functions of culture
- A.R. Radcliffe-Brown : the structures of society
- Edward Evans-Pritchard : social anthropology, social history
- Leslie White : evolution emergent
- Julian Steward : cultural ecology and multilinear evolution
- Marvin Harris : cultural materialism
- Eleanor Burke Leacock : feminism, Marxism, and history
- Claude Levi-Strauss : structuralism
- Victor Turner : symbols, pilgrims, and drama
- Clifford Geertz : an interpretive anthropology
- Mary Douglas : symbols and structures, pollution and purity
- James Fernandez : the play of tropes