Both British and American Anthropologists Eventually Came to Reject Unilineal

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Essay

Both British and American anthropologists eventually came to reject unilineal cultural evolutionism, but each group replaced it with a different approach for dealing with the variety of human social forms. What were these approaches? How did they differ, both from each other and from unilineal cultural evolutionism?

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