Leslie White | Vibepedia

Leslie A. White was a bold American anthropologist who championed cultural evolutionism and neoevolutionism, arguing that technological energy harnessing drives human progress. Defying the dominant Boasian relativism, he pioneered 'culturology' as a scientific study of culture as a superorganic force. His provocative ideas trained generations of thinkers and revived 19th-century giants like Lewis Henry Morgan.[1][2]