The evolution of culture : the development of civilization to the fall of Rome / Leslie A. White ; foreword by Robert L. Carneiro and Burton J. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Leslie A., 1900-1975.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, substantial introduction by Robert Carneiro and Burton J. Brown assess White's historical importance and continuing influence in the discipline. White is credited with reintroducing evolution in a way

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.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill Book, 1959.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-41855-X

1-315-41856-8

1-315-41857-6

1-59874-794-0

9781315418575

OCLC:

711747426