Leslie White

See also: White

Leslie White (1900 - 1975) was an American anthropologist.

The thought of White falls under the dash of the cultural Matérialisme American and he is often regarded as one of the principal theorists of the current " néo-évolutionniste" , label which it will not have of cease to reject.

He taught of 1930 until his retirement in 1970 with the Université of Michigan where he marked of his influence of the anthropologists like Marshall Sahlins or Marvin Harris. He was elected president of American Anthropological Association in 1964.

White partly draws her inspiration in the historical Matérialisme Marxist and the evolutionism of Lewis Henry Morgan and Edward Tylor. This associated with its taste of the polemic was worth to him during the first part its career mistrust of the academic authorities and an anthropology boassienne then dominant. White will be established only in 1943 and it is only after the war that these theses will be recognized.

It gives its name to the " Law of White" , forsaken today, which stipulates that the cultural evolution is function of the quantity of energy available per capita of inhabitant and per annum.

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