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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Interested in explanations for social complexity?
This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how and why some societies have grown in complexity over time. Written from a materialist perspective, the authors have developed an elegant thesis for explaining the "causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution. " This book has become a standard in many anthropology classes.
Published on September 28, 2001 by anjalibrowning
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26 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
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Solid but disappointing
An extremely intelligent and valuable book. In my experience of teaching it for several years, undergraduates find it overly dense and off-putting. Its strongest points are the numerous brief but well thought out summary ethnographic examples from the !kung-san to the Inka. Weakest point is the authors' conviction that school of Marvin Harris cultural evolutionism is...
Published on September 4, 2000 by Larry M. Miller
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Interested in explanations for social complexity?,
By "anjalibrowning" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, Second Edition (Paperback)
This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how and why some societies have grown in complexity over time. Written from a materialist perspective, the authors have developed an elegant thesis for explaining the "causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution. " This book has become a standard in many anthropology classes.
26 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State (Paperback)
An extremely intelligent and valuable book. In my experience of teaching it for several years, undergraduates find it overly dense and off-putting. Its strongest points are the numerous brief but well thought out summary ethnographic examples from the !kung-san to the Inka. Weakest point is the authors' conviction that school of Marvin Harris cultural evolutionism is the only useful key to thinking about human history
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Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State by Allen W. Johnson (Paperback - Nov. 1988)
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