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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 The Early History of Evolutionism; Herbert Spencer and the Concept of Evolution; The Evolutionary Views of Tylor and Morgan; 2 The Reconstruction of Cultural Evolution; The Comparative Method; The Possibility of a Social Science; The Uniformity of Nature; The Principle of Continuity; From Simplicity to Complexity; The Objective Rating of Cultures; Evolution Not an Inherent Tendency; The Psychic Unity of Man; Differential Evolution; Contemporary Primitives and Ancestral Cultures; Modern Primitives Not Primeval; Primal Human Society |
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Survivals3 The Characteristics of Cultural Evolution; Rectilinearity; Unilinearity; The Skipping of Stages; The Law of Evolutionary Potential; Rates of Evolution; Diffusion and Evolution; 4 The Determinants of Cultural Evolution; Inherent versus External Determinants; Psychic Unity as an Active Agent; Racial Determinism; Human Perfectibility; Individuals as Determinants; The Influence of Great Men; Ideas as Prime Movers; Historical Materialism; Environmental Factors; Subsistence as a Determinant; Economic Determinants; Social Determinants; War as a Determinant; Natural Selection; Conclusion |
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5 Anti-Evolutionism in the AscendancyThe Boasian Backlash; Diffusionism in British Anthropology; The Functionalist Reaction; Malinowski; Radcliffe-Brown; Anti-Evolutionism in Later British Social Anthropology; Remaining Islands of Cultural Evolutionism: James G. Frazer; Hobhouse, Wheeler, and Ginsberg; Sumner and Keller; George P. Murdock; The Barren Landscape; Theorizing Disavowed; Historical Particularism; 6 Early Stages in the Reemergence of Evolutionism; Leslie A. White; Diffusion versus Evolution; The Derivation of Evolutionary Formulas; Cultural Relativism and the Rating of Cultures |
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In Spite of ThemselvesJulian H. Steward; V. Gordon Childe; Evolutionism in Ethnology in the 1950s; The Darwin Centennial; 7 Issues in Late Midcentury Evolutionism; New Steps Forward; General and Specific Evolution; History versus Evolution; Archaeology and Evolution; Service's Sequence of Stages; Processual Archaeology; Lewis Binford and Middle Range Theory; fcthnographic Analogy and Parallels; Ethnoarchaeology; General Systems Theory; Respectability Regained; Neo-Evolutionism, ; 8 Features of the Evolutionary Process; Developmental Stages; Process versus Stages |
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Scale Analysis and the Refinement of SequencesVerifying Inferred Sequences of Development; Directionality in Evolution; Complexity as the Hallmark of Evolution; Is Evolution Irreversible?; The Objective Rating of Cultures; Rates of Cultural Evolution; The Mechanisms of Cultural Evolution; The Darwinian Model; Adaptation Considered Further; Typological versus Populational Concepts; 9 What Drives the Evolution of Culture?; Elman Service versus Marvin Harris; Cultural Causality Examined; Determinants: White and Steward Considered Separately; Steward and White Compared |
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Ecological Approaches: Limitations and Pitfalls |
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Print version record |
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Evolution.
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Evolution
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429980305 |
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0429980302 |
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