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Meaning of neoevolutionism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

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.

uncountable

Equivalents

Italiano neoevoluzionismo

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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