Trace the development of the idea of culture from the social evolutionists through the social structuralists

Trace the development of the idea of culture from the social evolutionists through the social structuralists

Evolutionist

Edward Sapir (1949:20) was the first to scorn the evolutionist's seek for chosen details to grace abstract evolutionary theories. In the early years of anthropology, the current outlook was that culture usually evolves (or evolves) in a consistent and progressive manner. It was considered that most societies overtake through the identical sequence of phases, to reach finally at a widespread end. The idea of splitting up the ethnological record into evolutionary ...