Profiles in Cultural Evolution: Papers from a Conference in Honor of Elman R. Service

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by  edited by A. Terry Rambo and Kathleen Gillogly

Anthropological Papers
Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
No. 85
Profiles in Cultural Evolution
Papers from a Conference
in Honor of Elman R. Service
edited by
A. Terry Rambo and Kathleen Gillogly
Ann Arbor, Michigan
1991
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Contents
List of Figures, vii
List of Tables, viii
Foreword, xi
HENRY T. WRIGHT
Introduction, xiii
A. TERRY RAMBO, KATHLEEN GILLOGLY, KARL L. HUTTERER, AND
JEFFREY R. PARSONS
List of Conference Participants, xvii
1. BACKGROUND
1. Evolutionary Theory in Ethnological Perspectives, 3
ARAM A. YEN GOY AN
2. The Study of Cultural Evolution, 23
A. TERRY RAMBO
II. THE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES IN TROPICAL
SOUTH AMERICA
3. Cultural Evolution, Human Ecology, and Empirical Research, 113
ROBERT D. DRENNAN
4. Coevolution and the Development of Venezuelan Chiefdoms, 137
CHARLES S. SPENCER
5. The Nature of the Chiefdom as Revealed by Evidence from the
Cauca Valley of Colombia, 167
ROBERT L. CARNEIRO
III
6. Cultural Evolution in Amazonia, 191
BETTY J. MEGGERS
III. STAGE SEQUENCES AND THE DIRECTIONALITY OF
CULTURAL EVOLUTION
7. Losing Track of the Tribes: Evolutionary Sequences in Southeast
Asia, 219
KARL L. HUTTERER
8. The Diversity and Cultural Evolutionary Trajectories of Philippine
"Negrito" Populations, 247
JAMES F. EDER
9. Technological Complexity, Ecological Diversity, and Fire Regimes
in Northern Australia: Hunter-Gatherer, Cowboy, Ranger, 261
HENRY T. LEWIS
IV. THE QUEST FOR PRIME MOVERS IN CULTURAL EVOLUTION
10. Energy and the Evolution of Culture: A Reassessment of White's
Law, 291
A. TERRY RAMBO
11. Social Integration and Energy Utilization: An Analysis of the Kubu
Suku Terasing of Indonesia and the Temuan Orang Asli of
Malaysia, 311
ALI M. A. RACHMAN
12. Esoteric Knowledge, Geographical Distance, and the Elaboration
of Leadership Status: Dynamics of Resource Control, 333
MARY W. HELMS
V. DIVERSITY AND CHANGE
13. Similarities and Differences in Lifestyles in the Central Cordillera
of Northern Luzon, Philippines, 353
JULES DE RAEDT
IV
14. The Development of Kinship in Tropical South America, 373
GERTRUDE E. DOLE
15. Social Ecology of Thai Peasant Society: The Impact of Larger and
External Social Relations (1850-1950), 405
OPART PANYA
16. Ethnic Groups in Transition and Some of Their Impacts on the
Hinterland Environments of Southeast Asia: Are There Lessons to
Be Learned?, 429
PERCY E. SAJISE
v

List of Figures
4.1 Western Venezuela, showing how the study area overlaps sections of the Andean
piedmont and the llarws, 148
4.2 The study area, 150
4.3 Topographic map of the archeological site of La Esmeralda, 153
4.4 Topographic map of the Gavan, 155
4.5 La Tigra, the drained-field system, 157
5.1 Some of the major chiefdoms of the Cauca Valley of Colombia during the
sixteenth century, 171
6.1 Maximum and minimum water levels recorded at the mouth of the Negro between
1902 and 1953, 196
6.2 Sites of the Apuau and Pajura phases, Polychrome Tradition, Guarita
Subtradition on the lower Rio Negro, 201
6.3 The seriated sequences defining the Apuau and Pajura phases of the Polychrome
Tradition, 202
6.4 Profiles showing four occupations of AM-MA-9, 204
6.5 Affiliations of archeological sites on the lower Xingu, 205
6.6 Carbon-14 and thermoluminescent dates from sites on eastern Maraj6, 207
10.1 Evolution of energy use, 294
10.2 Per capita energy consumption at different evolutionary stages: empirical assess
ment,298
10.3 Energy consumption by cultural systems representing different evolutionary
stages, 306
11.1 The Kubu territory of south-central Sumatra, 314
11.2 Layout of Kubu settlement at Kampung Celor, 315
11.3 The Kubu ecosystem at Kampung Celor, 317
11.4 Temuan territory in west peninsular Malaysia, 318
11.5 The Temuan of Kampung Pay a Lebar, 319
11.6 The ecosystem of the Paya Lebar Temuan, 323
13.1 Northern Luzon provinces and ethnolinguistic groups, 357
14.1 The Cross Cousin pattern, 379
14.2 The Dakota-Iroquois (Bifurcate Merging) pattern, 379
14.3 Dual relationships with sister's daughter marriage, 387
14.4 Dual relationships with father's sister marriage, 388
14.5 The Cross Generation pattern, 389
15.1 The early nineteenth century Thai socioeconomic formation, 408
15.2 Socioeconomic transactions in the early Bangkok economy, 409
15.3 The transformation of Thai socioeconomic formation, 413
15.4 Thailand Central Plain, 417
15.5 Social ecology of Thai peasant society, 422
16.1 Conceptual framework for relating human impacts on agroecosystems to resource
base, 431
VB
List of Tables
4.1 Radiocarbon dates, 151
4.2 Thermoluminescence dates, 152
8.1 Tribal assistance projects visited, 249
11.1 The Kubu band of Kampung Celor and its household composition, 316
11.2 Households in Kampung Paya Lebar, 320
11.3 Energy output of activities, 325
11.4 Energy consumption per capita per day for household and social activities, 327
13.1 Distribution of select cultural traits in the Central Cordillera, 369
15.1 Peasants' management input and activities in Central Plain agriculture, 420
16.1 Area coverage of "core" areas in Southeast Asia, 430
16.2 Hierarchical impacts of some ethnic groups on agroecosystems in the hinterlands
of Southeast Asia, 443
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Profiles in Cultural Evolution
Papers from a Conference in Honor of
Elman R. SeNice