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cultural evolution, the development of one or more cultures from simpler to more complex forms. In the 18th and 19th centuries the subject was viewed as a unilinear phenomenon that describes the evolution of human behaviour as a whole.
Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) helped found cultural history as a discipline.
This article outlines how the historical human sciences see ‘culture’ and its dynamic developments over time and over generations. The operations of human culture are systemically self-reflexive and, as a result, exhibit a complexity that sets them ...
A major task of cultural anthropology was thought to be that of classifying different societies and cultures and defining the phases and states through which all human groups pass—the linear interpretation of history.
The basic idea that culture evolves has its roots in the work of Charles Darwin and other 19th century scholars. Evolutionary lineages of tools assembled by Pitt Rivers (1875), illustrating how human technology gradually evolves over time from common roots to suit different functions.
cultural anthropology, a major division of anthropology that deals with the study of culture in all of its aspects and that uses the methods, concepts, and data of archaeology, ethnography and ethnology, folklore, and linguistics in its descriptions and analyses of the diverse peoples of the world.
A more visible and effective inclusion of culture in development programmes at local, national, and international levels is critical for sustainable development. Embrace diversity in approaches and development models as well as in cultural forms and practices.
