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Language: en
Pages: 290
Pages: 290
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-13 - Publisher: Vintage
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
Language: en
Pages: 290
Pages: 290
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-07-02 - Publisher: Waveland Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Rowman Altamira
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
Language: en
Pages: 412
Pages: 412
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-08-28 - Publisher: AltaMira Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 560
Pages: 560
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-09-26 - Publisher: Harper Perennial
Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny.