Format:
Online-Ressource (401 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781598741445
Content:
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
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Description based upon print version of record
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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
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12. The Agricultural Revolution13. The State-Church: its Forms and Functions; 14. Economic Structure of Higher Cultures; 15. Theology and Science; 16. Summary; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781598747942
Additional Edition:
Print version The Evolution of Culture : THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION TO THE FALL OF ROME
Language:
English
Keywords:
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