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 EDITION Part VII: Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories 25: Leda Cosmides and John Toobey, from The Evolutionary Primer 26: 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 Culture Part VIIIThe Ontological Turn 28: Philippe Descola, from Beyond Nature and Culture 29: Tim Ingold, from Anthropology beyond Humanity 30: Bruno Latour, from Introduction from Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory