Energy, Complexity and Strategies of Evolution. En: Avá, nº 14

dc.creator	Adams, Richard N.
dc.date	2008-08	es
dc.date.accessioned	2014-05-22T21:37:29Z
dc.date.available	2014-05-22T21:37:29Z
dc.date.issued	2014-05-22
dc.identifier.issn	1851-1694
dc.identifier.other	RA-075
dc.identifier.uri	http://argos.fhycs.unam.edu.ar/handle/123456789/314
dc.description	Cultural evolution has long been among the themes of anthropology but it has never ranked high. It is left mainly to archaeologists because they have to make sense of how society works and survives through time–a concern that has pretty much been abandoned by many cultural anthropologists. Anthropologists today seem little motivated to find out how society works, but rather to make the world a better place to live in for a particular population. The challenges of atmospheric change, nuclear proliferation, environmental degradation and resource exhaustion, the emergence of life threatening species–these challenges of contemporary evolution have awakened less interest in anthropology. The concern with cultural evolution seems to be of greater interest to non-anthropologists, such as in the work of Jarrod Diamond (2005), a biologist, and the genre that as emerged as Big History, with the works of David Christian (2005) and others. Among the few contemporary anthropologists who have sought the dynamics of cultural evolution, the work of Joseph Tainter (1996) stands out.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. Secretaría de Investigación y postgrado. Programa de Postgrado de Antropología Social.	es
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Artículos RA	es
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/	es
dc.subject	Cultural	es
dc.subject	Anthropology	es
dc.subject	Society	es
dc.subject	Energy	es
dc.title	Energy, Complexity and Strategies of Evolution. En: Avá, nº 14	es
dc.type	artículo	es
dc.type	publishedVersion	es
dc.type	article	es
dc.coverage	ARG	es

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Publicación semestral del Programa de Postgrado en Antropología Social. Incluye trabajos de investigación teórico empíricos en antropología social y otras disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales a nivel nacional e internacional.

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