Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists - Softcover

Moore, Jerry D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803970978 ISBN 13: 9780803970977

Publisher: AltaMira Press, 1996

Synopsis

An accessible, balanced undergraduate textbook on anthropological theory. Jerry D. Moore's Visions of Culture presents students with a brief, readable treatment of theoretical developments in the field from the days of Tylor and Morgan through contemporary postmodernists and cultural materialists. The key ideas of 21 major theorists are briefly described and linked to biographical and fieldwork experiences that helped shape those theories. An assessment of the scholar's impact on contemporary theorizing is presented, along with numerous explanatory examples, illuminating quotes from the theorists' writings, and a description of the broader intellectual setting in which these anthropologists worked. An ideal book for classes on the theory or the history of anthropology.

About this title

From the Author:

Jerry D. Moore is Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Dominguez Hills.  He has conducted archaeological investigations in Peru, Baja California, California, and southern Mexico. He is the author of Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes (Cambridge), Cultural Landscapes in the Prehispanic Andes (University Press of Florida), and Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists (Altamira Press/Rowman and Littlefield), and The Prehistory of Home (University of California Press.)  He is the editor of Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader and co-editor of The Prehistory of Baja California: Advances in the Archaeology of the Forgotten Peninsula (with Don Laylander).

About the Author:

Jerry D. Moore is a professor of anthropology at California State University, Dominquez Hills.

About this edition

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0803970978
• ISBN 13: 9780803970977
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288