1st Edition
Evolutionism In Cultural Anthropology A Critical History
By Robert L. Carneiro
Copyright 2003
336 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropologytraces the interaction of evolutionary thought and anthropological theory from Herbert Spencer to the twenty-first century. It is a focused examination of how the idea of evolution has continued to provide anthropology with a master principle around which a vast body of data can be organized and synthesized. Erudite and readable, and quoting extensively from... Read more
Preface -- The Early History of Evolutionism -- The Reconstruction of Cultural Evolution -- The Characteristics of Cultural Evolution -- The Determinants of Cultural Evolution -- Anti-Evolutionism in the Ascendancy -- Early Stages in the Reemergence of Evolutionism -- Issues in Late Midcentury Evolutionism -- Features of the Evolutionary Process -- What Drives the Evolution of Culture? -- Other Perspectives on Cultural Evolution -- Elements of Evolutionary Formulations -- Current Issues and Attitudes in the Study of Cultural Evolution
Biography
Carneiro, Robert L.
