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Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures
Marvin Harris
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Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures - Harris, Marvin
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Synopsis "Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures"
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
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