Cannibals and Kings - 9780679728498
Un libro in lingua di Marvin Harris edito da Vintage Books, 1991
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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
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Cannibals and Kings
- Sottotitolo: The Origins of Cultures
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Marvin Harris
- Editore: Vintage Books
- Collana: Vintage Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Giugno '91
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Social evolution Culture Origin Man Influence of environment
- Dimensioni mm: 203 x 133 x 25
- ISBN-10: 067972849X
- EAN-13: 9780679728498