ABSTRACT
Reprinted from The Theory of Culture Change: The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1955). At the time of his death in 1972, Julian H. Steward was Graduate Research Professor of Anthropology and a member of the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Illinois. His research interests covered North American and South American Indians, comparative studies of hunting and gathering societies, especially of the Great Basin, cultural evolution, and the modernization of traditional societies. He was also the author of Sociopolitical Groups of the Great Basin, and co-author and editor of Handbook of South American Indians, The People of Puerto Rico, Native Peoples of South America (with Louis C. Far on), and Contemporary Transformations in Traditional Societies.
