Visions of Culture

Jerry D. Moore is an 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 Annotated Reader, Second EditionEdited by Jerry D. MoorePart I: Introduction1. Edward Tylor, from Primitive Culture2. Lewis Henry Morgan, from Ancient Society3. Franz Boas, from The Methods of Ethnology4. Émile 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 Professions6. Ruth Benedict, from Configurations of Culture in North America7. Edward Sapir, from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech and from Language and Environment (Excerpts)8. Margaret Mead, from More Comprehensive Field MethodsPart III: The Nature of Society9. Marcel Mauss, from The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies10. Bronislaw Malinowski, from The Primitive Economics of the Trobriand Islanders11. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, from The Comparative Method in Social Anthropology12. Edward E. Evans-Pritchard, from Social Anthropology: Past and PresentPart IV. Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories13. Leslie A. White, from Energy and the Evolution of Culture14. 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 Civilizations15. Marvin Harris, from Anthropology and the Theoretical and Paradigmatic Significance of the Collapse of Soviet and East European Communism16. Eleanor Burke Leacock, from Women's Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social EvolutionPart V: Structures, Symbols, and Meaning 17. Claude Lévi-Strauss, from The Structural Study of Myth18. Victor Turner, from Symbols in African Ritual19. Clifford Geertz, from Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example20. Mary Douglas, from Animals in Lele Religious SymbolismPart VI. Structures, Practice, Agency, Power21. Sherry B. Ortner, from On Key Symbols22. Pierre Bourdieu, from The Berber House or the World Reversed23. Eric R. Wolf, from Types of Latin American Peasantry: A Preliminary Discussion (Excerpt) and from Distinguished Lecture: Facing power--Old Insights, New Questions24. 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 CulturePart 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