Abstract:AND APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY Anthropological use of &dquo;development&dquo; has survived the impedimenta of many connotations. In the nineteenth century an association was made between development and evolution. The onslaught on the Social Darwinians in the first part of the twentieth century repudiated the connotations of development along with social evolution. But threads of argument favoring social evolution were tenuously maintained, and a newly reasoned basis for social evolution and its connection with deve… Show more
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