neoevolutionism

English

Etymology

From neo- +‎ evolutionism.

Noun

neoevolutionism (uncountable)

1. (sociology, anthropology) A school of anthropology, developed in the mid-20th century, concerned with long-term, evolutionary social change and with the regular patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures.
   • 1977 March, Leo S. Klejn, “A Panorama of Theoretical Archaeology”, in Current Anthropology, volume 18, number 1, →DOI, page 4:

     The so-called neoevolutionism or cultural materialism of Childe, however, had been preserved (in the works of R. McC. Adams, Braidwood, and others), as had the environmental school of Crawford, Fox, and Clark. […] Influences from cultural anthropology—neoevolutionism and functionalism—were pulling in the same direction.

Related terms

• neoevolution
• neoevolutionary
• neoevolutionist

 

Translations

school of antropology

• Hungarian: neoevolucionizmus
• Italian: neoevoluzionismo (it)