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- catalog abstract ""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 time she spent on revision is evidence of the importance Mead attached to the subject: the need to develop a truly evolutionary vision of human culture and society."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11242731.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""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 time she spent on revision is evidence of the importance Mead attached to the subject: the need to develop a truly evolutionary vision of human culture and society."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-463) and index.".
- catalog description "The climate of opinion and the study of evolution -- Stress on continuity -- Conditions of early forms of cultural transmission -- Evolutionary implications of learning by empathy, imitation, and identification -- Evolutionary significance of transmission of culture through artifacts -- Borderlines between learning and teaching -- Directionality of human evolution -- The unit of cultural micro-evolution -- The Paliau movement in the Admiralties -- The conditions of conscious participation in the evolutionary process -- The conditions of scientific participation -- Difficulties in creating evolutionary clusters -- An evolutionary focus for thinking -- Ongoing social forms -- Possible forms of centers with an evolutionary potential -- Invoking the future -- Appendices: Micro- and macro-cultural models for cultural evolution / Theodore Schwartz and Margaret Mead -- Seven Pacific cultures -- Bibliographical considerations.".
- catalog extent "xxxiv, 471 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0765806045 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers,".
- catalog subject "303.4 21".
- catalog subject "HM101 .M37 1999".
- catalog subject "Social change.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The climate of opinion and the study of evolution -- Stress on continuity -- Conditions of early forms of cultural transmission -- Evolutionary implications of learning by empathy, imitation, and identification -- Evolutionary significance of transmission of culture through artifacts -- Borderlines between learning and teaching -- Directionality of human evolution -- The unit of cultural micro-evolution -- The Paliau movement in the Admiralties -- The conditions of conscious participation in the evolutionary process -- The conditions of scientific participation -- Difficulties in creating evolutionary clusters -- An evolutionary focus for thinking -- Ongoing social forms -- Possible forms of centers with an evolutionary potential -- Invoking the future -- Appendices: Micro- and macro-cultural models for cultural evolution / Theodore Schwartz and Margaret Mead -- Seven Pacific cultures -- Bibliographical considerations.".
- catalog title "Continuities in cultural evolution / Margaret Mead ; with a new introduction by Stephen Toulmin.".
- catalog type "text".