By Jerry D. Moore

Visions 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