The evolution of culture; the development of civilization to the fall of Rome.

White, Leslie A., 1900-1975.,

The evolution of culture; the development of civilization to the fall of Rome. [print] - New York, McGraw-Hill, (c)1959. - 378 pages 24 cm.



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



58011197 /L

GB59-10373


Civilization, Ancient.

CB311.W585.E965 1959