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.

Author/creator White, Leslie A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWalnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press,
Descriptionxxii, 378 p. ; 21 cm.
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Subjects

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.
General noteOriginally published: New York : McGraw-Hill Book, 1959.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2007000279
ISBN9781598741445 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1598741446 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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