"The Evolution of Culture and Other Essays" by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers is a collection of essays and lectures that uses evolutionary ideas to look at human culture. It mainly zeroes in on how materials, arts, and technology have improved over the years. The book looks at the step-by-step changes in making things by hand and coming up with ideas across time. The editor, Henry Balfour, talks about how Colonel Lane Fox first tried to use evolutionary ideas to understand human-made objects. Balfour recalls Lane Fox's strong interest in ethnology which led to a large collection that tries to connect cultural expressions by categorizing them, based on their evolutionary history. Balfour highlights how these initial studies document items from different cultures and also show how tools and crafts move from simple to complex, revealing old practices and ideas in today's technologies.
The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays
By Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Witness the development of humanity's creations through an evolutionary lens, tracing the path from simple tools to complex crafts.
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About the AuthorLieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections. His international collection of about 22,000 objects was the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford while his collection of English archaeology from the area around Stonehenge forms the basis of the collection at The Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire.
Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections. His international collection of about 22,000 objects was the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford while his collection of English archaeology from the area around Stonehenge forms the basis of the collection at The Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire.
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