Neo-evolutionism, neo-materialism - Rappaport

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What approach of neo evolution did Steward come up with?

Cultural ecology

What is a cultural core according to Steward?

Societies with a similar core, belonged to one cultural type.

 

It is a cultural type whose essential features- patrtilineality, patriocality, exogamy, land ownership, and lineage composition- constituted a cultural core wich recurred cross culturally with great regularity. 

Steward focused Geographical determinism. What is this?

 

The idea that environment determined culture.  Steward believed that certain types of society are extremely likely to occur under particular conditions of technology and environment. 

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Why is Steward know as the creator of multilinear evolutionism?

He was not interested in formulating a general, universal plan of evolution, but rather with showing how particular cultures changed and developed. 

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