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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Marvin Harris
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-13 - Publisher: Vintage

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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 Jew
Good to Eat
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Marvin Harris
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-07-02 - Publisher: Waveland Press

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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 Goo
Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Marvin Harris
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Rowman Altamira

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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 ant
Cultural Materialism
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: Marvin Harris
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-08-28 - Publisher: AltaMira Press

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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 h
Our Kind
Language: en
Pages: 560
Authors: Marvin Harris
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-09-26 - Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny.