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March 27, 2017 | Business Biographies Primers

By Leslie A White

This misplaced vintage through well-known anthropological theorist Leslie A. White, released now for the 1st time, represents twenty-five years of his scholarship at the anthropology of contemporary capitalism. Drawing out his now vintage formulations of social association, cultural evolution, and the connection among expertise, ecology, and tradition, this significant theoretical paintings lines an enormous expanse of historical past from the earliest varieties of capitalism to the unique internal workings of up to date democratic associations. a considerable foreword by way of Burton J. Brown, Benjamin Urish, and Robert Carneiro either situates this posthumous paintings in the background of anthropological concept and exhibits its significance to modern debates in the discipline.

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