Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and its Legacy"A thought-provoking, stimulating volume on the past, present and future of cultural materialism that is both laudatory of Harris' research strategy and critical of it." Paul Shankman, University of Colorado One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book accessibly analyzes Harris's theories and their important legacies today. The chapters explore cultural materialism's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures. The authors assess recent attempts to extend and reformulate cultural materialism and highlight cross-cultural, archaeological, and ethnographic applications of cultural materialism today. |
Contents
| 1986 | |
| 1994 | |
A Bibliometric Analysis | |
The Theoretical Legacies of Cultural Materialism and Marvin | |
Cultural Materialism Scientific Anthropology Epistemology | |
Cultural Materialism Rational Choice and the Problem | |
A Pre | |
Cultural Materialism Archaeology | |
Coevolutionary Materialism | |
and Theoretical Extension of Cultural Materialism | |
What Role Does Population Pressure Play in the Evolutionary | |
When Is a Theoretical Strategy Not Cultural Materialism? | |
Requiscat in PaceObituaries of Marvin Harris | |
Margolis and Conrad Phillip Kottak | |
Reference | |
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