Author: Marvin HarrisPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780002161206
Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Author: Marvin HarrisCannibals and Kings
Author: Marvin HarrisPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307801233
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show how cultures adopt their characteristic forms in response to changing ecological modes. "[A] magisterial interpretation of the rise and fall of human cultures and societies." -- Robert Lekachman, Washington Post Book World "Its persuasive arguments asserting the primacy of cultural rather than genetic or psychological factors in human life deserve the widest possible audience." -- Gloria Levitas The New Leader "[An] original and...urgent theory about the nature of man and at the reason that human cultures take so many diverse shapes." -- The New Yorker "Lively and controversial." -- I. Bernard Cohen, front page, The New York Times Book Review
Of Cannibals and Kings
Author: Neil L. WhiteheadPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271037997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"Translations of the earliest accounts, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, of the native peoples of the Americas, including Columbus's descriptions of his first voyage. Documents the emergence of a primal anthropology and how Spanish ethnological classifications were integral to colonial discovery, occupation, and conquest"--Provided by publisher.
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
Author: Marvin HarrisPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307801225
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches? Marvin Harris answers these and other perplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from identifiable and intelligble sources.
Cultural Materialism
Author: Marvin HarrisPublisher: AltaMira Press
ISBN: 0759116962
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential starting point for explaining the science of culture to students. Now available again after a hiatus, this edition of Cultural Materialism contains the complete text of the original book plus a new introduction by Orna and Allen Johnson that updates his ideas and examines the impact that the book and theory have had on anthropological theorizing.
Author: Marvin HarrisTheories of Culture in Postmodern Times
Author: Marvin HarrisPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780761990215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In this book, Marvin Harris presents his current views on the nature of culture addressing such issues as the mental/behavioral debate, emics and etics, and anthropological holism.
City of Cannibals
Author: Ricki ThompsonPublisher: Front Street, Incorporated
ISBN: 1590786238
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In 1536 England, sixteen-year-old Dell runs away from her brutal father and life in a cave carrying only a hand-made puppet to travel to London, where she learns truths about her mother's death and the conflict between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church.
Good to Eat
Author: Marvin HarrisPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478608927
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Why are human food habits so diverse? Why do Americans recoil at the thought of dog meat? Jews and Moslems, pork? Hindus, beef? Why do Asians abhor milk? In Good to Eat, best-selling author Marvin Harris leads readers on an informative detective adventure to solve the worlds major food puzzles. He explains the diversity of the worlds gastronomic customs, demonstrating that what appear at first glance to be irrational food tastes turn out really to have been shaped by practical, economic, or political necessity. In addition, his smart and spirited treatment sheds wisdom on such topics as why there has been an explosion in fast food, why history indicates that its bad to eat people but good to kill them, and why children universally reject spinach. Good to Eat is more than an intellectual adventure in food for thought. It is a highly readable, scientifically accurate, and fascinating work that demystifies the causes of myriad human cultural differences.
