Cultural Innovation from an Americanist Perspective

摘要: No matter how wide a search one might conduct, it would be difficult to find another topic in anthropology that has played as an important role innovation framing arguments about why and human behavior changes (O’Brien 2007; O’Brien Shennan 2010). Clearly, was implicit the nineteenth century writings of ethnologists, such Tylor (1871) Morgan (1877), both whom viewed production novelties – new ideas, ways doing things, like underlying evolutionary force keeps cultures moving up ladder cultural complexity. From their point view, vast majority have ever existed pooped out somewhere on way presumably because they either ran good ideas products or were too set borrow them from other cultures. A few innovative enough escape lower rungs develop into civilizations through acquisition traits, writing, calendars, monumental architecture.