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Carneiro

The Concise Evolutionary Essays

Robert Bates Graber (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
276 Seiten
2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-837-0 (ISBN)
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Robert L. Carneiro is one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century who brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth century origins. This book aims to contribute to revitalizing Carneiro’s profound theoretical perspective for current and future generations of students and anthropologists.
Robert L. Carneiro is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century, best known for “A Theory of the Origin of the State” (1970). His efforts throughout his career brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth-century origins into the twenty-first century. This book is comprised of thirteen essays, ordered and balanced according to Carneiro’s own conceptual arrangement, and aims to contribute to revitalizing this durable, illuminating theoretical perspective for current and future generations of students and anthropologists.

Robert Bates Graber is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Truman State University. He also taught at Millsaps College and held a visiting position with the University of Missouri’s Department of Anthropology. His books include A Scientific Model of Social and Cultural Evolution, and Meeting Anthropology Phase to Phase.

Editor's Preface



Introduction



Chapter 1. Successive Reequilibrations as the Mechanism of Cultural Evolution

Chapter 2. Structure, Function, and Equilibrium in the Evolutionism of Herbert Spencer

Chapter 3. The Transition from Quantity to Quality: A Neglected Causal Mechanism in Accounting for Social Evolution

Chapter 4. A Reappraisal of the Roles of Technology and Organization in the Origin of Civilization

Chapter 5. Ascertaining, Testing, and Interpreting Sequences of Cultural Development

Chapter 6. Stellar Evolution and Social Evolution: A Study in Parallel Processes

Chapter 7. The Nature of the Chiefdom as Revealed by Evidence from the Cauca Valley of Colombia

Chapter 8. What Happened at the Flashpoint? Conjectures on Chiefdom Formation at the Very Moment of Conception

Chapter 9. Process vs. Stages: A False Dichotomy in Tracing the Rise of the State

Chapter 10. Was the Chiefdom a Congelation of Ideas?

Chapter 11. A Theory of the Origin of the State

Chapter 12. The Circumscription Theory: Challenge and Response

Chapter 13. Political Expansion as an Expression of the Principle of Competitive Exclusion



Conclusion



Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.3.2026
Zusatzinfo Bibliography; Index; 13 Illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80539-837-7 / 1805398377
ISBN-13 978-1-80539-837-0 / 9781805398370
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