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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 -- Survivals -- 3 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 -- 5 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 -- 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
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The Philosophy of History -- The Changing Faces of History -- The Thorny Thickets of History -- What Drives the Engine of History? -- The Great Man and Ideas as Prime Movers -- How to Turn History into Science -- The Culture Process and Its Determinants -- Are There Laws of History? -- Proposed Laws of Culture.
In: Ethnos: journal of anthropology, Volume 69, Issue 2, p. 268-288
ISSN: 1469-588X
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 106, Issue 1, p. 191-192
ISSN: 1548-1433
From Leaders to Rulers. Jonathan Haas, ed. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001. 286 pp.
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 99, Issue 1, p. 204-205
ISSN: 1548-1433
Foundations of Social Inequality. T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman. eds. New York: Plenum Press, 1995. 290 pp.
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Volume 31, Issue 4, p. 497-511
ISSN: 1552-3381
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 90, Issue 1, p. 232-233
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Volume 31, Issue 4, p. 497
ISSN: 0002-7642
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 81, Issue 3
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 81, Issue 1, p. 187-188
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 72, Issue 3, p. 686-688
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 70, Issue 3, p. 582-583
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 68, Issue 2, p. 557-558
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 66, Issue 6, p. 1399-1402
ISSN: 1548-1433