Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and Its LegacyLawrence A. Kuznar, Stephen K. Sanderson "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. |
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... parental investment is made in each child . This strategy is what we find among the middle and upper - middle classes of modern industrial societies and seems to be favored when infant and child mortality are very low and children's ...
... parental investment is made in each child . This strategy is what we find among the middle and upper - middle classes of modern industrial societies and seems to be favored when infant and child mortality are very low and children's ...
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... parental investment ( e . g . , paramecia , snakes , fish ) , whereas K - selected species tend to be larger organisms that leave few offspring and practice high parental investment ( e . g . , birds , mammals ) . Nevertheless , I still ...
... parental investment ( e . g . , paramecia , snakes , fish ) , whereas K - selected species tend to be larger organisms that leave few offspring and practice high parental investment ( e . g . , birds , mammals ) . Nevertheless , I still ...
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... parental investment in traditional and modern human societies . " Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 39 : 1-45 . Kaplan , Hillard S. , and Kim Hill . 1985. " Hunting ability and reproductive success among male Ache foragers : Preliminary ...
... parental investment in traditional and modern human societies . " Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 39 : 1-45 . Kaplan , Hillard S. , and Kim Hill . 1985. " Hunting ability and reproductive success among male Ache foragers : Preliminary ...
Contents
A Bibliometric Analysis | 20 |
The Theoretical Legacies of Cultural Materialism | 56 |
Cultural Materialism Rational Choice and the Problem | 78 |
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