Continuities in cultural evolution / Margaret Mead ; with a new introduction by Stephen Toulmin.
Continuities in cultural evolution / Margaret Mead ; with a new introduction by Stephen Toulmin.
Continuities in cultural evolution / Margaret Mead ; with a new introduction by Stephen Toulmin.
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1999.
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T0357720
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English
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xxxiv, 471 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. The Climate of Opinion and the Study of Evolution -- 2. Stress on Continuity -- 3. Conditions of Early Forms of Cultural Transmission -- 4. Evolutionary Implications of Learning by Empathy, Imitation, and Identification -- 5. Evolutionary Significance of Transmission of Culture through Artifacts...
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1999.
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New Jersey
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c1999.
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"Margaret Mead once said, "I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves." Continuities in Cultural Evolution is evidence of this devotion. It began as the Terry Lectures, given at Yale in 1957 and was not published until 1964, after extensive reworking. The...
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Continuities in cultural evolution / Margaret Mead ; with a new introduction by Stephen Toulmin.
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Originally published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1964, in series: Terry lectures.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-463) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from 303.4/58.
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c1999.
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T0357720
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0765806045(pbk.) :
9780765806048 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0765806045 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780765806048(pbk.) :
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303.4
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991011491539702626
