Author: Robert Carneiro

Source: Ethnos, Volume 69, Number 2, June 2004 , pp. 268-288(21)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' contributes to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practiced today, evolved and took shape. In the following invited contribution Robert L. Carneiro, who for more than four decades has worked as curator of South American Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, looks back on a lifelong involvement with studies of cultural evolution. Inspired by his teacher Leslie White in the 1940s, Professor Carneiro is perhaps best known for his classic publications 'A Theory of the Origin of the State' and 'The Chiefdom: Precursor of the State'. Here, he discusses the background to those papers, and he gives his views on developments in anthropology since the 1940s.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0014184042000212

Publication date: 2004-06-01

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