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Overview
Former students and current colleagues of Kent Flannery draw on his 40 years of cross-cultural research in archaeology to discuss contemporary cultural evolutionary theory. They analyze issues of cultural, political, and technological change from a range of current theoretical perspectives. Contributions reflect the richness of issues being investigated by contemporary theorists interested in long-term change as well as the wide variety of data, approaches, and ideas that researchers are employing. Feinman is affiliated with the Field Museum, Chicago. Manzanilla is affiliated with the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, ORSynopsis
Former students and current colleagues of Kent Flannery draw on his 40 years of cross-cultural research in archaeology to discuss contemporary cultural evolutionary theory. They analyze issues of cultural, political, and technological change from a range of current theoretical perspectives. Contributions reflect the richness of issues being investigated by contemporary theorists interested in long-term change as well as the wide variety of data, approaches, and ideas that researchers are employing. Feinman is affiliated with the Field Museum, Chicago. Manzanilla is affiliated with the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR