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A Non-Quantitative Non-Law in Anthropology: A Reply to Carneiro

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donn Bayard
Donn Bayard*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, New Zealand
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Abstract

I explain my "failure" to familiarize myself with Carneiro's more recent attempts to arrive at "laws" of cultural evolution, and go on to critically evaluate his 1968 paper. I attempt to demonstrate that Carneiro's "law" is not applicable to cultural development in general, and that it is neither quantitative in application nor a law.

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Comment
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American Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 447 - 449
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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