Visions of Culture

Jerry D. Moore isan archaeologist, writer, editor, and professor of anthropology at California State University Dominguez Hill. Moore has conducted archaeological research in Peru, Mexico, and southern California. He is the author of seven books, and numerous articles and reviews.

• Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth EditionJerry D. MooreIntroduction: 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 Society9. 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 Theories13. 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 KnowledgePostscript: Current Controversies Index *Denotes new parts and theorists

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