This is a review of Leslie White and his three key works.
Title: This is a review of Leslie White and his three key works.
Category: /History
Details: Words: 2009 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
This is a review of Leslie White and his three key works.
Category: /History
Details: Words: 2009 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Leslie Alvin White was born in Colorado in 1900. An advocate of social evolution at a time when it had virtually disappeared from anthropology, following its rejection by Franz Boas and his students. His affirmation of evolutionism, his materialist-utilitarian interpretation of custom, and his call for a science of culture are the pillars of his scholarly reputation. White first attended Louisiana State University before transferring to Columbia University where he received a Bachelors Degree (1923) and a …showed first 75 words of 2009 total…
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1990 Interpreting Leslie White: Pessimism and Theory. American Anthropologist. 92:1019-1020.
Hatch, Elvin
1990Leslie White's Materialism: A Comment on Barrett. American Anthropologist. 92:1018.
White, Leslie A.
1949The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization. New York: Grover Press, Inc.
1959The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
1975The Concept of Cultural Systems: A Key to Understanding Tribes and Nations. New York: Columbia University Press.
