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Cultural Evolution
. Ed(S): Feinman, Gary M.; Manzanilla, Linda
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Description for Cultural Evolution
Hardback. Reflects the diversity of modern approaches to the study of cultural evolutionary processes. This volume expresses the issues being investigated by comparative theorists interested in long-term change, as well as a variety of data, approaches, and ideas that researchers are employing to examine these questions. Editor(s): Feinman, Gary M.; Manzanilla, Linda. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1320.
Drawing on Kent Flannery's forty years of cross-cultural research in the area, the contributors to this collection reflect the current diversity of contemporary approaches to the study of cultural evolutionary processes. Collectively the volume expresses the richness of the issues being investigated by comparative theorists interested in long-term change, as well as the wide variety of data, approaches, and ideas that researchers are employing to examine these questions.
Drawing on Kent Flannery's forty years of cross-cultural research in the area, the contributors to this collection reflect the current diversity of contemporary approaches to the study of cultural evolutionary processes. Collectively the volume expresses the richness of the issues being investigated by comparative theorists interested in long-term change, as well as the wide variety of data, approaches, and ideas that researchers are employing to examine these questions.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306462405
SKU
V9780306462405
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Reviews for Cultural Evolution
'All of the chapters are top-knotch, and several make major strides toward understanding the emergence of complexity in more comprehensive theoretical terms. Flannery is definitely to be commended for stimulating such a broad body of research on the cultural evolution of political and economic complexity. Would I buy this book? My answer is another "Yes". Every faculty member interested in ... Read more