1st Edition
The Evolution of Culture The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome
By Leslie A White
Copyright 2007
400 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
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; Two: The Agricultural Revolution and Its Consequences; 12: The Agricultural Revolution; 13: The State-Church: ITS Forms and Functions; 14: Economic Structure of Higher Cultures; 15: Theology and Science; 16: Summary
Biography
Leslie A White
