Carneiro

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.

“This book presents a number of important papers, previously published, by the respected anthropologist and proponent of cultural evolution, Robert L. Carneiro.” • Janet Chernela, University of Maryland“The volume is especially useful in bringing to light quite a few of Carneiro’s works that have not got the attention they perhaps deserve…as the preface makes clear, [ ] Carneiro himself structured the chapter sequence, which gives the chapters a coherence, Carneiro’s personal imprimatur, and historical value as a document reflecting how he saw his ideas develop through his career.” • Paul Roscoe, University of Maine

• Editor's PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Successive Reequilibrations as the Mechanism of Cultural EvolutionChapter 2. Structure, Function, and Equilibrium in the Evolutionism of Herbert SpencerChapter 3. The Transition from Quantity to Quality: A Neglected Causal Mechanism in Accounting for Social EvolutionChapter 4. A Reappraisal of the Roles of Technology and Organization in the Origin of CivilizationChapter 5. Ascertaining, Testing, and Interpreting Sequences of Cultural DevelopmentChapter 6. Stellar Evolution and Social Evolution: A Study in Parallel ProcessesChapter 7. The Nature of the Chiefdom as Revealed by Evidence from the Cauca Valley of ColombiaChapter 8. What Happened at the Flashpoint? Conjectures on Chiefdom Formation at the Very Moment of ConceptionChapter 9. Process vs. Stages: A False Dichotomy in Tracing the Rise of the StateChapter 10. Was the Chiefdom a Congelation of Ideas?Chapter 11. A Theory of the Origin of the StateChapter 12. The Circumscription Theory: Challenge and ResponseChapter 13. Political Expansion as an Expression of the Principle of Competitive ExclusionConclusionBibliographyIndex