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The evolution of culture the development of civilization to the fall of Rome
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Title
The evolution of culture [electronic resource] : the development of civilization to the fall of Rome / Leslie A. White ; foreword by Robert L. Carneiro and Burton J. Brown.
ISBN
9781598741445 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1598741446 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.
Physical Description
xxii, 378 p. ; 21 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill Book, 1959.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 11, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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