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Applying Evolutionary Archaeology - A Systematic Approach (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
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Applying Evolutionary Archaeology - A Systematic Approach (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
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Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing
interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises. Pick
up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in the last quarter of
the nineteenth century and the chances are good that the word
evolution will appear somewhere in the text. If for some reason the
word itself is absent, the odds are excellent that at least the
concept of change over time will have a central role in the
discussion. After one of the preeminent (and often vilified) social
scientists of the nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer, popularized
the term in the 1850s, evolution became more or less a household
word, usually being used synonymously with change, albeit change
over extended periods of time. Later, through the writings of
Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, and others, the notion of
evolution as it applies to stages of social and political
development assumed a prominent position in anthropological disc-
sions. To those with only a passing knowledge of American
anthropology, it often appears that evolutionism in the early
twentieth century went into a decline at the hands of Franz Boas
and those of similar outlook, often termed particularists. However,
it was not evolutionism that was under attack but rather
comparativism- an approach that used the ethnographic present as a
key to understanding how and why past peoples lived the way they
did (Boas 1896).
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Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2000 |
First published: |
2000 |
Authors: |
Michael J. O'Brien
• R. Lee Lyman
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
471 |
Edition: |
2000 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-306-46253-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Archaeology >
General
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LSN: |
0-306-46253-2 |
Barcode: |
9780306462535 |
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