Visions of Culture

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 EDITIONPart VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories25: Leda Cosmides and John Toobey, from The Evolutionary Primer26: 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 CulturePart VIII—The Ontological Turn28: Philippe Descola, from Beyond Nature and Culture29: Tim Ingold, from Anthropology beyond Humanity30: Bruno Latour, from “Introduction”from Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory