The evolution of culture
Subtitle: the development of civilization to the fall of Rome
By: Leslie A. White ; foreword by Robert L. Carneiro and Burton J. Brown.
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781598741445
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient
Notes: Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill Book, 1959.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Man and culture; title: Energy and tools; title: The nature of social organization; title: The transition from anthropoid society to human society; title: Exogamy and endogamy; title: Kinship; title: Structure, functions, and evolution of human social systems; title: Integration, regulation, and control of social systems; title: Economic organization of primitive society; title: Philosophy : myth and lore; title: Primitive culture as a whole; title: The agricultural revolution; title: The state-church : its forms and functions; title: Economic structure of higher cultures; title: Theology and science; title: Summary.