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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction : what's the point? | |
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| Founders | |
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| Edward Tylor : the evolution of culture | |
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| Lewis Henry Morgan : the evolution of society | |
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| Franz Boas : culture in context | |
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| Emile Durkheim : a science of society | |
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| The nature of culture | |
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| Alfred Kroeber : configuration of culture | |
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| Ruth Benedict : patterns of culture | |
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| Edward Sapir : culture, language, and the individual | |
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| Margaret Mead : the individual and culture | |
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| The nature of society | |
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| Marcel Mauss : elemental categories, total facts | |
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| Bronislaw Malinowski : the functions of culture | |
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| A.R. Radcliffe-Brown : the structures of society | |
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| Edward Evans-Pritchard : social anthropology, social history | |
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| Evolutionary, adaptationist, and materialist theories | |
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| Leslie White : evolution emergent | |
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| Julian Steward : cultural ecology and multilinear evolution | |
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| Marvin Harris : cultural materialism | |
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| Eleanor Burke Leacock : feminism, marxism, and history | |
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| Structures, symbols, and meaning | |
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| Claude Levi-Strauss : structuralism | |
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| Victor Turner : symbols, pilgrims, and drama | |
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| Clifford Geertz : an interpretive anthropology | |
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| Mary Douglas : symbols and structures, pollution and purity | |
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| Structures, practice, agency, and power | |
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| James Fernandez : the play of tropes | |
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| Sherry Ortner : symbols, gender, practice | |
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| Pierre Bourdieu : an anthropology of practice | |
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| Eric Wolf : culture, history, power | |
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| Postscript : current controversies | |
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| Index | |
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| About the author | |