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Cannibals and Kings

By Marvin Harris

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Cannibals and Kings

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
1991-06-04
Publication Date:
1991-06-04
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
067972849X
ISBN13:
9780679728498
Weight:
308 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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