Cannibals and Kings: Origins of CulturesKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 4 มิ.ย. 1991 - 368 หน้า 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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Culture and Nature | 3 |
Murders in Eden | 9 |
The Origin of Agriculture | 27 |
The Origin of War | 45 |
Proteins and the Fierce People | 67 |
The Origin of Male Supremacy and of | 79 |
Oedipus Complex 12 | 81 |
The Origin of Pristine States | 101 |
Forbidden Flesh 1 93 | 191 |
The Origin of the Sacred Cow | 211 |
The Hydraulic Trap | 233 |
The Origin of Capitalism | 251 |
The Industrial Bubble | 271 |
Epilogue and Moral Soliloquy | 287 |
Acknowledgments References and Notes | 295 |
Bibliography | 307 |
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