An anthropologist looks at history / With a foreword by Milton Singer. Edited by Theodora Kroeber.
| Author/creator | Kroeber, A. L. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1963. |
| Description | xix, 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 note | Little-58780--305131052546Z |
| LCCN | 63016250 |