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Evolutionism In Cultural Anthropology: A Critical History

By Robert L. Carneiro

Book information

Publisher
Westview Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0813337666, 9780813337661
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
9 MB (9134541 bytes)
Pages
336\340
Time added
2015-09-03 08:21:12
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Description

Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropologytraces the interaction of evolutionary thought and anthropological theory from Herbert Spencer to the twenty-first century. It is a focused examination of how the idea of evolution has continued to provide anthropology with a master principle around which a vast body of data can be organized and synthesized. Erudite and readable, and quoting extensively from early theorists (such as Edward Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, John McLennan, Henry Maine, and James Frazer) so that the reader might judge them on the basis of their own words, Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology is useful reading for courses in anthropological theory and the history of anthropology.

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