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Author White, Leslie A., 1900-1975.

Title The evolution of culture : the development of civilization to the fall of Rome / Leslie A. White
Published New York : McGraw-Hill, 1959
McGraw-Hill, 1959

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Description 378 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Man and culture -- Energy and tools -- The nature of social organization -- The transition from anthropoid society to human society -- Exogamy and endogamy -- Kinship -- Structure, functions, and evolution of human social systems -- Integration, regulation, and control of social systems -- Economic organization of primitive society -- Philosophy : myth and lore -- Primitive culture as a whole -- The agricultural revolution -- The state-church : its forms and functions -- Economic structure of higher cultures -- Theology and science -- Summary
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Civilization, Ancient.
Anthropology.
Civilization.
Culture.
History.
LC no. 58011197
ISBN 0070696829