Rethinking social evolution : the perspective from middle-range societies /

"Rethinking Social Evolution is a wide-ranging exploration of how language and increased cognitive abilities constitute the motor of social evolution. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic case studies, Jerome Rousseau offers a better understanding of how modern societies continue to transfor...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rousseau, Jérôme
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Social evolution > Case studies.
Social systems > Case studies.
Indigenous peoples > Social life and customs.
Indians of North America > Social life and customs.
Social evolution.
Social systems.
Social systems > Growth.
Cultural Evolution
Évolution sociale.
Évolution sociale > Études de cas.
Systèmes sociaux.
Systèmes sociaux > Croissance.
Autochtones > Mœurs et coutumes.
Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord > Mœurs et coutumes.
Systèmes sociaux > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Concepts and issues in social evolution
  • Equality and autonomy among hunter-gatherers
  • From immediate- to delayed return systems : the emergence of middle-range societies
  • Structures of order at the domestic level
  • Societies with increased socio-economic differentiation
  • - Emergent properties of complex middle-range societies
  • The process of social evolution.

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