| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : illustrations |
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The Early History of Evolutionism -- Herbert Spencer and the Concept of Evolution -- The Evolutionary Views of Tylor and Morgan -- 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 -- Survivals -- The Characteristics of Cultural Evolution -- Rectilinearity -- Unilinearity -- The Skipping of Stages -- The Law of Evolutionary Potential -- Rates of Evolution -- Diffusion and Evolution -- 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 -- Anti-Evolutionism in the Ascendancy -- The 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-312) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Social evolution.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Cultural Evolution
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Social evolution.
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Evolutionismus
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Geschichte
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Kulturanthropologie
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Evolutionisme (sociale wetenschappen)
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Culturele antropologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429980305 |
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0429980302 |
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9780429500671 |
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042950067X |
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