The Study of Complex Civilizations

Abstract

which have bulked large in time and space, and which have had many interlocking parts. The civilizations of China, of Japan, of India, of the Arab world, of Western Europe, come to mind as examples of such complex civilizations; each of them has a number of variant forms according to coun? try or region or period. In recent years there has been a notable growth in the study by anthropologists of peoples within the orbit of one or another of these civilizations. There has also been