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Title: The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State by Allen W. Johnson, Timothy K. Earle ISBN: 0-8047-4032-1 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Interested in explanations for social complexity?
Comment: This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how and why some societies have grown in complexity over time. Written from a materialist perspective, the authors have developed an elegant thesis for explaining the "causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution. " This book has become a standard in many anthropology classes.

Rating: 3
Summary: Solid but disappointing
Comment: An extremely intelligent and valuable book. In my experience of teaching it for several years, undergraduates find it overly dense and off-putting. Its strongest points are the numerous brief but well thought out summary ethnographic examples from the !kung-san to the Inka. Weakest point is the authors' conviction that school of Marvin Harris cultural evolutionism is the only useful key to thinking about human history

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