Profiles in Cultural Evolution: Papers from a Conference in Honor of Elman R. Service

edited by A. Terry Rambo and Kathleen Gillogly

University of Michigan Press, 1991
eISBN: 978-1-949098-87-7 | Paper: 978-0-915703-23-4
Library of Congress Classification GN2.M5 no. 85
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.8

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Presenting diverse viewpoints and topics, this collection includes the following sections:Part I presents a background on the study of cultural evolution. Part II deals with the evolution of complex societies in the tropics of South America. Part III discusses stage sequences and directionality in cultural evolution. Part IV examines the role of prime movers in cultural evolution. Part V discusses diversity and change.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

List of Figures,

List of Tables,

Foreword, (Henry T. Wright)

Introduction, (A. Terry Rambo, Kathleen Gillogly, Karl L. Hutterer, and Jeffrey R. Parsons)

List of Conference Participants,

I. Background

1. Evolutionary Theory in Ethnological Perspectives, (Aram A. Yengoyan)

2. The Study of Cultural Evolution, (A. Terry Rambo)

II. The Evolution of Complex Societies in Tropical South America

3. Cultural Evolution, Human Ecology, and Empirical Research, (Robert D. Drennan)

4. Coevolution and the Development of Venezuelan Chiefdoms, (Charles S. Spencer)

5. The Nature of the Chiefdom as Revealed by Evidence from the Cauca Valley of Colombia, (Robert L. Carneiro)

6. Cultural Evolution in Amazonia, (Betty J. Meggers)

III. Stage Sequences and the Directionality of Cultural Evolution

7. Losing Track of the Tribes: Evolutionary Sequences in Southeast Asia, (Karl L. Hutterer)

8. The Diversity and Cultural Evolutionary Trajectories of Philippine "Negrito" Populations, (James F. Eder)

9. Technological Complexity, Ecological Diversity, and Fire Regimes in Northern Australia: Hunter-Gatherer, Cowboy, Ranger, (Henry T. Lewis)

IV. The Quest for Prime Movers in Cultural Evolution

10. Energy and the Evolution of Culture: A Reassessment of White's Law, (A. Terry Rambo)

11. Social Integration and Energy Utilization: An Analysis of the Kubu Suku Terasing of Indonesia and the Temuan Orang Asli of Malaysia, (Ali M.A. Rachman)

12. Esoteric Knowledge, Geographical Distance, and the Elaboration of Leadership Status: Dynamics of Resource Control, (Mary W. Helms)

V. Diversity and Change

13. Similarities and Differences in Lifestyles in the Central Cordillera of Northern Luzon, Philippines, (Jules De Raedt)

14. The Development of Kinship in Tropical South America, (Gertrude E. Dole)

15. Social Ecology of Thai Peasant Society: The Impact of Larger and External Social Relations (1850-1950), (Opart Panya)

16. Ethnic Groups in Transition and Some of Their Impacts on the Hinterland Environments of Southeast Asia: Are There Lessons to Be Learned?, (Percy E. Sajise)

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