Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and its LegacyRoutledge, 3 déc. 2015 - 344 pages "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. |
Table des matières
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I | 19 |
Part II The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism | 65 |
Part III Applications of Cultural Materialism | 103 |
Part IV The Darwinian Challenge to Cultural Materialism | 167 |
II | 229 |
Requiscat in PaceObituaries of Marvin Harris Marvin Harris 74 Is Dead Professor Was Iconoclast of Anthropologists | 261 |
Bibliography of Marvin Harris 19522001 | 269 |
References | 285 |
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