ISBN:
9781598741445
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (401 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Evolution of Culture : THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION TO THE FALL OF ROME
DDC:
306.46
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
One of the major works of twentieth-century anthropological theory, written by one of the discipline's most important, complex, and controversial figures, has not been in print for several years. Now Evolution of Culture is again available in paperback, allowing today's generation of anthropologists new access to Leslie White's crucial contribution to the theory of cultural evolution. A new, substantial introduction by Robert Carneiro and Burton J. Brown assess White's historical importance and continuing influence in the discipline. White is credited with reintroducing evolution in a way that
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword by Robert L. Carneiro and Burton J. Brown; Preface; Part One: Primitive Culture; 1. Man and Culture; 2. Energy and Tools; 3. The Nature of Social Organization; 4. The Transition from Anthropoid Society to Human Society; 5. Exogamy and Endogamy; 6. Kinship; 7. Structure, Functions, and Evolution of Human Social Systems; 8. Integration, Regulation, and Control of Social Systems; 9. Economic Organization of Primitive Society; 10. Philosophy: Myth and Lore; 11. Primitive Culture as a Whole; Part Two: The Agriculture Revolution and Its Consequences
Description / Table of Contents:
12. The Agricultural Revolution13. The State-Church: its Forms and Functions; 14. Economic Structure of Higher Cultures; 15. Theology and Science; 16. Summary; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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