Theory of culture change the methodology of multilinear evolution steward julian h 9780252002953 books amazonca. Theory of culture change the methodology of multilinear evolution by julian h steward1990 11 01 julian h steward books amazonca. Theory of culture change the methodology of multilinear evolution julian h steward university of illinois press urbana 1955 244 pp 5 tables 400 volume 22 issue 2part1 robert m adams. Some 20 years of work steward argues persuasively that cultural change consists of complex continuing processes rather than isolable acts or events of unitary character diffusion versus independent invention with the increasing preponderance of studies of cultural change in archaeology