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Rethinking social evolution : the perspective from middle-range societies / Jérôme Rousseau.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773560185
  • 0773560181
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking social evolution.DDC classification:
  • 303.4 22
LOC classification:
  • GN360 .R68 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Concepts and issues in social evolution -- Equality and autonomy among hunter-gatherers -- From immediate- to delayed return systems : the emergence of middle-range societies -- Structures of order at the domestic level -- Societies with increased socio-economic differentiation --- Emergent properties of complex middle-range societies -- The process of social evolution.
Summary: "Rethinking Social Evolution is a wide-ranging exploration of how language and increased cognitive abilities constitute the motor of social evolution. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic case studies, Jerome Rousseau offers a better understanding of how modern societies continue to transform themselves and shows that societies are the result of choices by people who both collaborate and compete."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286).

Concepts and issues in social evolution -- Equality and autonomy among hunter-gatherers -- From immediate- to delayed return systems : the emergence of middle-range societies -- Structures of order at the domestic level -- Societies with increased socio-economic differentiation --- Emergent properties of complex middle-range societies -- The process of social evolution.

Print version record.

"Rethinking Social Evolution is a wide-ranging exploration of how language and increased cognitive abilities constitute the motor of social evolution. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic case studies, Jerome Rousseau offers a better understanding of how modern societies continue to transform themselves and shows that societies are the result of choices by people who both collaborate and compete."--Jacket.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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