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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 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 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
- Appendix
- Index
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