VISIONS OF CULTURE: An Annotated Reader

Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader is an edited anthology of articles by twenty-five anthropologists — Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Pierre Bourdieu, Mary Douglas, Émile Durkheim, Edward E. Evans-Pritchard, James W. Fernandez, Clifford Geertz, Marvin Harris, Alfred Kroeber, Eleanor Burke Leacock, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Mauss, Margaret Mead, Lewis Henry Morgan, Sherry B. Ortner, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, Edward Sapir, Julian Steward, Marshall D. Sahlins, Victor Turner, Edward Tylor, Leslie A. White, and Eric R. Wolf.

These anthropologists represent a cross-section of major contributors to anthropological theory.

The book explores the diverse visions of culture that anthropology provides. Even though it is a text written for students, no one who either teaches at a university or writes for student audience can ignore this compilation.