Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader

by Jerry D. Moore (Editor)

Visions of An Annotated Reader provides an introduction to the major anthropological theorists and theories. Accompanying Jerry D. Moore's textbook Visions of Culture, the reader is an edited anthology of articles by 25 anthropologists that explores the impact of each scholar on contemporary anthropology as well as the broader intellectual setting in which the anthropologists worked.

Genres: Anthropology

516 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Jerry D. Moore is an anthropological archaeologist and professor of anthropology at California State University Dominguez Hills, California. His research interests focus on cultural landscapes, the archaeology of architecture, and human adaptations on the north coast of Peru and northern Baja California.

He is the author of Architecture and Power in the Prehispanic Andes: The Archaeology of Public Buildings (1996), Cultural Landscapes in the Prehispanic Andes: Archaeologies of Place (2005), Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists (2012), the 2014 SAA Book Award winner A Prehistory of Home, thirty-five peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and sixty-seven professional papers.

Reviews

[Michele · Rating 4 out of 5]

For a book about cultural theory, this one isn't bad, it is a companion book to Moore's Visions of Culture. If you have trouble reading academic papers, particularly older ones, don't bother with this. It can be very difficult to read, especially since some of the theorists wrote them in a different language and the text was translated. Personally, I found that reading their material sometimes took a concept I thought I understood in the first book and made me not understand it anymore. Even still, four stars because it is a nice snippet from some of the world's best sociologists and cultural anthropologists.