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The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization
Leslie A. White deals with the youngest child in the family of sciences- the science of culture. Culturology has finally emerged from the long developmental process of science, making clear man's true relationship to his culture.
444 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1949
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Leslie White
31 books9 followersLeslie Alvin White was an American anthropologist known for his advocacy of theories of cultural evolution, sociocultural evolution, and especially neoevolutionism, and for his role in creating the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He was president of the American Anthropological Association (1964).
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July 15, 2008
Amazingly insightfull- wait-thats cliche'. It gets pretty epistemilogical about doing anthropology, and sees Anthropology as a verb, not a noun "science is scienceing".
Sometimes i think some ideas are unformed, but those do not detract from the concepts that White finds important, like the idea that culture and cultural phenomena can never be EXPLAINED in terms of psychology, oly DESCRIBED in terms of psychology. This book gives what many have promised and failed to deliver. Modern in the post modern sense.
Sometimes i think some ideas are unformed, but those do not detract from the concepts that White finds important, like the idea that culture and cultural phenomena can never be EXPLAINED in terms of psychology, oly DESCRIBED in terms of psychology. This book gives what many have promised and failed to deliver. Modern in the post modern sense.
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