Visions of Culture: A Reader, Second Edition, has been revised and expanded with new selections and is coordinated for use with Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Fifth Edition. Each selection is prefaced with a brief introduction about the anthropologist and the text. Each primary text is followed by a section titled "Queries and Connections," a series of questions designed to help students focus on the central issues in each text and to relate them to other readings. NEW TO THIS EDITION Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories 25: Leda Cosmides and John Toobey, from The Evolutionary Primer 26: Eric Alden Smith, from Why Do Good Hunters Have Higher Reproductive Success? 27. Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson, from "Introduction" from The Origin and Evolution of Culture Part VIII-The Ontological Turn 28: Philippe Descola, from Beyond Nature and Culture 29: Tim Ingold, from Anthropology beyond Humanity 30: Bruno Latour, from "Introduction" from Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader, Second Edition Edited by Jerry D. Moore Part I: Introduction 1. Edward Tylor, from Primitive Culture 2. Lewis Henry Morgan, from Ancient Society 3. Franz Boas, from The Methods of Ethnology 4. Emile Durkheim, from Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (Excerpts) Part II: The Nature of Culture 5. Alfred Kroeber, from Disposal of the Dead and from Eighteen Professions 6. Ruth Benedict, from Configurations of Culture in North America 7. Edward Sapir, from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech and from Language and Environment (Excerpts) 8. Margaret Mead, from More Comprehensive Field Methods Part III: The Nature of Society 9. Marcel Mauss, from The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies 10. Bronislaw Malinowski, from The Primitive Economics of the Trobriand Islanders 11. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, from The Comparative Method in Social Anthropology 12. Edward E. Evans-Pritchard, from Social Anthropology: Past and Present Part IV. Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories 13. Leslie A. White, from Energy and the Evolution of Culture 14. Julian Steward, from Linguistic Distributions and Political Groups of the Great Basin Shoshoneans and from Cultural Causality and Law: A Trial Formulation of the Development of Early Civilizations 15. Marvin Harris, from Anthropology and the Theoretical and Paradigmatic Significance of the Collapse of Soviet and East European Communism 16. Eleanor Burke Leacock, from Women's Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution Part V: Structures, Symbols, and Meaning 17. Claude Levi-Strauss, from The Structural Study of Myth 18. Victor Turner, from Symbols in African Ritual 19. Clifford Geertz, from Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example 20. Mary Douglas, from Animals in Lele Religious Symbolism Part VI. Structures, Practice, Agency, Power 21. Sherry B. Ortner, from On Key Symbols 22. Pierre Bourdieu, from The Berber House or the World Reversed 23. Eric R. Wolf, from Types of Latin American Peasantry: A Preliminary Discussion (Excerpt) and from Distinguished Lecture: Facing power--Old Insights, New Questions 24. Marshall D. Sahlins, from Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-Man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia and from What is Anthropological Enlightenment? Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century *Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories *25. Eric Alden Smith, from Why Do Good Hunters Have Higher Reproductive Success? *26. Leda Cosmides and John Toobey, from The Evolutionary Primer *27. Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson, from "Introduction" from The Origin and Evolution of Culture Part VIII-The Ontological Turn *28. Tim Ingold, from Anthropology Beyond Humanity *29. Philippe Descola, from Beyond Nature and Culture *30. Bruno Latour, from "Introduction" from Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory *Denotes new articles
