An anthropologist looks at history / With a foreword by Milton Singer. Edited by Theodora Kroeber.

Author/creator Kroeber, A. L.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©1963.
Descriptionxix, 213 pages ; 20 cm
Subjects

Contents pt. 1. The delimitation of civilizations -- Have civilizations a life history? -- The time profile of Western civilizations -- Flow and reconstitution within civilizations -- Periodization -- The role of style in comparative civilizations -- Holism and world view -- pt. 2. Integration of the knowledge of man -- What ethnography is -- An anthropologist looks at history -- History and anthropology in the study of civilizations -- The personality of anthropology -- Evolution, history, and culture -- On human nature.
Local noteLittle-58780--305131052546Z
LCCN 63016250