Robert L Carneiro

Biographic Data

ID79407
NAMERobert L Carneiro
GIVEN NAMESRobert L
FAMILY NAMECarneiro
SIGNATURECARNEIRO R L
AFFILIATIONSAmerican Museum of Natural History
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS74
TOTAL CITATIONS431
AUTHOR COUNT73
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1955
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX11

  • The Transition from Hunting to Horticulture in the Amazon Basin

    Robert L CarneiroCHAPTERMan in Adaptation2022

    Reprinted from Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Tokyo and Kyoto, 1968, pp. 244–248). Robert L. Carneiro is Associate Curator of South American Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, New York. He has combined field studies among the Kuikuru and Amahuaca Indians of the Amazon Basin with an interest in the role of ecological factors in the rise of complex societies. More recently,…

  • Evolutionism

    Open AccessRobert L CarneiroOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Evolutionism holds that things are best understood as resulting from a long process of development. Two forms of evolution can be distinguished. Darwinian evolution, narrowly biological, is “descent with modification.” Spencerian evolution sees the process operating more broadly, manifesting itself in all domains of nature, including culture. Pioneered in anthropology by ethnologists, evolutionism today, following a half‐century of antievolutioni…

  • The Tribal Village and Its Culture: An Evolutionary Stage in the History of Human Society

    Robert L CarneiroCHAPTERThe Archaeology of Tribal Societies2018

  • Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology: A Critical History

    Robert L CarneiroBOOKEvolutionism in Cultural…2018

    Examines the history of evolutionism in cultural anthropology, beginning with its roots in the 19th century, through the half-century of anti-evolutionism, to its reemergence in the 1950s, and the current perspectives on it today. No other book covers the subject so fully or over such a long period of time.. Evolutionism and Cultural Anthropology traces the interaction of evolutionary thought and anthropological theory from Herbert Spencer to the…

  • Chiefdoms: Yesterday and Today

    Andrey V Korotayev, Robert L Carneiro et al.BOOKChiefdoms2017

  • The Sons of the Moon: The Amahuaca Version of a Widespread Amazonian Myth

    Open AccessRobert L CarneiroARTICLEAmazônica - Revista de Antropologia2016

    In a previous publication, I presented the Kuikuru version of an important myth from the Upper Xingú which I called "To the Village of the Jaguars." A version of this myth is widely distributed among Amazonian groups, including the Amahuaca, a Panoan-speaking group of eastern Peru and western Brazil. The Amahuaca version is presented here as I recorded it among them in 1960 and 1961. After presenting the text of the myth, I discuss specific simil…

  • Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures: Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences

    Bjarne Andresen, Martin J Beckmann et al.BOOKSelf-Organization and Dissipative…2014

  • Cariapé: Um Caso De Padronização De Erro Na Arqueologia

    Open AccessRobert L CarneiroARTICLERevista de Arqueologia2009Cited by: 2

    Através dos escritos de Betty J. Meggers e Clifford Evans, "cariapé" ficou estabelecido na literatura arqueológica como o nome das cinzas de uma casca de árvore rica em sílica, largamente utilizada por índios amazônicos como tempero da cerâmica. Mas a grafia "cariapé" é um erro; a forma corretaé "caraipé". Evidência é apresentada para provar isso e a fonte do erro é então demonstrada

  • A base ecológica dos cacicados amazônicos

    Open AccessRobert L Carneiro, Denise Pahl SchaanARTICLERevista de Arqueologia2007Cited by: 7References: 8

    Os cacicados encontrados na Amazônia na época do primeiro contato europeu têm se tornado objeto de crescente interesse antropológico. Esse artigo inicia por discutir as várias teorias que têm sido propostas para explicá-los, incluindo aquelas de Julian Steward, Betty Meggers e Clifford Evans, Donald Lathrap e Anna Roosevelt. Depois de descrever as várias teorias, o autor apresenta sua própria, que enfatiza fatores ecológicos, incluindo a guerra. …

  • Death Notices: Michael Ames, Craig Morris, Cynthia Nelson

    Open AccessStephen Ingli, Stephen Inglis et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006

  • The Mystery of the Cotton Tipití

    Open AccessRobert L CarneiroARTICLE1700-tal: Nordic Journal for…2005

    In his article on the Arawak in the Handbook of South American Indians, Irving Rousecitesthe Taínoasusinga “cottontube”todetoxifybittermanioc.This “cotton tipití,” which is mentioned nowhere else, had always puzzled me. By going back into the early literature, however, it was possible to establish that this was an error based on the loose use of words by the chronicler Girolamo Benzoni in 1572. It is possible to conclude, therefore, that the cott…

  • Authors’ Responses

    Open AccessP Roscoe, Amber Johnson et al.ARTICLECross-Cultural Research2004References: 8

  • The Political Unification of the World: Whether, When, and How—Some Speculations

    Open AccessRobert L CarneiroARTICLECross-Cultural Research2004Cited by: 1References: 2

    That the world will some day be ruled by a single government has been foreseen by visionary thinkers for well more than a century, and this article quotes a number of these predictions. However, there has been less agreement as to how a world state would be achieved. Some have held that it would occur through peaceful and voluntary means. Others have argued that it could only result—as have all other political coalescences in the past—through mil…

  • From Leaders to Rulers

    Open AccessRobert L CarneiroARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2004

    From Leaders to Rulers. Jonathan Haas, ed. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001. 286 pp

  • Can anthropology be made a science? A retrospective glance

    Robert L CarneiroARTICLEEthnos2004Cited by: 1References: 10

    The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' contributes to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practiced today, evolved and took shape. In the following invited contribution Robert L. Carneiro, who for more than four decades has worked as curator of South American Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, looks b…

  • Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon

    Open AccessRobert L CarneiroARTICLE1700-tal: Nordic Journal for…2003Cited by: 3

    Book review of Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon. Candace Slater. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 332 pp., chronology of key dates, glossary, notes, index. ISBN 0-520-22641-0

  • Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology: A Centennial Retrospective and Appraisal

    Robert L Carneiro, Robert G Perrin et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Science2002Cited by: 7References: 17

    On the occasion of its recent centennial, we trace the remarkable history of Herbert Spencer's 2,240 page Principles of Sociology , the most inductive, systematic, and comprehensive study of human society ever attempted. Spencer's bold aim was to establish empirically and then to explain (after the manner of the natural sciences) the 'relations of co-existence and sequence' among social phenomena. The database ('mass of evidence') required was so…

  • A Rapid Method of Archeological Seriation

    Open AccessRobert L CarneiroARTICLEAnthropological Science1997References: 1

    To establish the chronological order of a series of surface sites which are not stratigraphically superimposed, archeologists make use of a technique known as seriation. The first systematic method for carrying out seriation was devised by Robinson and Brainerd in 1951. Since then, a number of other methods for doing so have been developed. Almost all of them, however, are laborious and time consum-ing. The present paper describes a new way of do…

  • Foundations of Social Inequality

    Open AccessRobert L CarneiroARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1997Cited by: 10

    Foundations of Social Inequality. T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman. eds. New York: Plenum Press, 1995. 290 pp

  • Herbert Spencer; a Primary and Secondary Bibliography

    Robert L Carneiro, Robert G Perrin et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1996

  • Configurations of Power: Holistic Anthropology in Theory and Practice

    Robert L Carneiro, John S Henderson et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1995Cited by: 2

  • War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare

    Robert L Carneiro, R Brian Ferguson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994Cited by: 2

  • Chiefdoms: Power, Economy, and Ideology

    Robert L Carneiro, Timothy EarleARTICLEEthnohistory1993

  • The Calusa and the Powhatan, native chiefdoms of North America

    Robert L CarneiroARTICLEReviews in Anthropology1992References: 2

    Widmer, Randolph J. The Evolution of the Calusa, A Nonagricultuml Chiefdom on the Southwest Florida Coast. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988. xv + 334 pp. including references and index. $18.95 paper. Rountree, Helen C. The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. viii + 221 pp. including references and index. $18.95 cloth

  • The Role of Natural Selection in the Evolution of Culture

    Open AccessRobert L CarneiroARTICLECultural Dynamics1992Cited by: 2References: 17