The Principles of Social Evolution - Couverture rigide

Hallpike, C. R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198272650 ISBN 13 : 9780198272656

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1986

Synopsis

How do societies evolve? This is one of the central problems of social anthropology, and in this book C.R. Hallpike proposes an entirely novel solution which no anthropologist can afford to ignore. Current theories all assume that institutions survive and spread because of their adaptive advantages. A wide variety of forms may survive, however, because of a lack of effective competition in an undemanding social environment. Their real evolutionary significance lies in their latent structural properties, which may have great developmental potential. This is particularly true of religious and military institutions and kinship structures; when these are combined in the right way significant new forms, such as the state, may emerge. In his study Professor Hallpike compares in detail the core principles of Chinese and Indo-European society, arguing that a limited number of social and cosmological principles guide the evolution of each society. The traditional concepts of adaptive advantage, random variation, and environmental determinism are significantly challenged. Anthropologists; historians; sociologists.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198272650
• ISBN 13: 9780198272656
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 424
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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