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Margaret Mead - Continuities in Cultural Evolution

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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. All of Meads efforts were intended to help others learn about themselves and work toward a more humane and socially responsible society. Scientist, writer, explorer, and teacher, Mead brought the serious work of anthropology into the public consciousness. This volume 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. This was desirable in her eyes both in order to reinforce the historical dimension in our ideas about human culture, and to preserve the relevance of historical and cultural diversity to social, economic, and political action. Given the present state of academic and public discourse alike, this volume speaks to us in a language we badly need to recover.

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title Continuities in Cultural Evolution author Mead Margaret - photo 1

title:Continuities in Cultural Evolution
author:Mead, Margaret.
publisher:Transaction Publishing
isbn10 | asin:0765806045
print isbn13:9780765806048
ebook isbn13:9780585315928
language:English
subjectSocial change.
publication date:1999
lcc:HM101.M37 1999eb
ddc:303.4
subject:Social change.
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Continuities in Cultural Evolution
Margaret Mead
with a new introduction by Stephen Toulmin
Page iv Copyright 1999 by Transaction Publishers New Brunswick New - photo 2
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Copyright 1999 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Originally published as part of the Dwight Harrington Terry Foundation Lecture Series on Religion in the Light of Science and Philosophy in 1964 by Yale University Press.
The author acknowledges with thanks permission from the following sources to use copyrighted material: Gregory Bateson, Ray L. Birdwhistell, American Anthropologist, Anthropological Papers of The American Museum of Natural History, Stanford University Press, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Houghton Mifflin Company, _William Morrow and Company, and The New York Academy of Sciences.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to Transaction Publishers, RutgersThe State University, 35 Berrue Circle, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8042.
This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 99-17824
ISBN: 0-7658-0604-5
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mead, Margaret, 19011978.
Continuities in cultural evolution / Margaret Mead ; with a new introduction by
Stephen Toulmin.
p. cm.
Originally published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1964. With new
introd., in series: Terry lectures
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7658-0604-5 (pbk.)
1. Social change. I. Title.
HM101.M37 1999
303.4dc21 99-17824
CIP
Page v
For Nora Barlow and her children
my living links with Darwin
Page vii
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
ix
Introduction to the Transaction Edition
xi
Preface
xxv
Introduction
xxxi
Part I
1. The Climate of Opinion and the Study of Evolution
3
2. Stress On Continuity
24
3. Conditions of Early Forms of Cultural Transmission
36
4. Evolutionary Implications of Learning by Empathy, Imitation, and Identification
54
5. Evolutionary Significance of Transmission of Culture through Artifacts
83
6. Borderlines between Learning and Teaching
107
Part II
7. Directionality of Human Evolution
145
8. The Unit of Cultural Micro-Evolution
170
9. The Paliau Movement in the Admiralties
192
Part III
10. The Conditions of Conscious Participation in the Evolutionary Process
237
11. The Conditions of Scientific Participation
249
12. Difficulties in Creating Evolutionary Clusters
264
13. An Evolutionary Focus for Thinking
282
14. Ongoing Social Forms
293
15. Possible Forms of Centers with an Evolutionary Potential
303
16. Invoking the Future
316

Page viii
Appendices
A. Micro- and Macro-Cultural Models for Cultural Evolution, Theodore Schwartz and Margaret Mead
327
B. Seven Pacific Cultures
336
C. Bibliographical Considerations
358
Notes
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