Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General AnthropologyProfessor Harris - the leading theorist in cultural materialism - bases this comprehensive work on the perspective of thematic and theoretical coherence, giving the book depth and continuity. Speaking directly to students, helpful chapter introductions and end-of-chapter summaries focus on key points before and after reading each chapter. This seventh edition includes meticulous updating of research and scholarship, especially in the very active field of physical anthropology and archaeology. A new feature - "America Now Updates" - turns an anthropological eye on the contemporary U.S., emphasizing the comparative aspects of anthropology and making the discipline relevant to students. |
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Page 238
... modes of production laid the basis for the emergence of native American cities , states , and empires . Different regions , how- ever , had different limits of growth . In the Mesoamerican lowlands , the Olmec and , to a greater degree ...
... modes of production laid the basis for the emergence of native American cities , states , and empires . Different regions , how- ever , had different limits of growth . In the Mesoamerican lowlands , the Olmec and , to a greater degree ...
Page 277
... modes of production . This can be seen in the sequence leading from Paleolithic big game hunting to Neolithic agriculture . Variations in reproductive rates cannot be explained by the universal desire to have children . Rather ...
... modes of production . This can be seen in the sequence leading from Paleolithic big game hunting to Neolithic agriculture . Variations in reproductive rates cannot be explained by the universal desire to have children . Rather ...
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... modes of production ( Ch . 12 ) and hence as parts of infrastructure , and those aspects that we can more conveniently examine as part of the structural level of sociocultural systems . As we have seen , modes of produc- tion are ...
... modes of production ( Ch . 12 ) and hence as parts of infrastructure , and those aspects that we can more conveniently examine as part of the structural level of sociocultural systems . As we have seen , modes of produc- tion are ...
Contents
Why Study Anthropology? | 5 |
Organic Evolution | 9 |
The Inheritance of Genes | 11 |
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