Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures
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Description
Author: Harris, Marvin (1927-2001)
Publisher: Random House
Pub Date: 1977
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Book: Fair to Good. Binding tight. No tears, bends or folds. Previous owner’s stamp on upper corner ffep and half-title pages. Light edge and corner wear. Dust Jacket: Fair. NOT price clipped. Edge and corner wear. Sun-fading to spine. Two areas of smudging, one on front and one on rear, at the line where the boards change texture and color. Scuffing to rear cover.
Notes: “….cultures assume their characteristic forms in response to available resources. As the demands of growing populations eventually exceed these resources, cultures undertake increasingly intensive forms of production, until the original resources reach the point of depletion. Then, if the culture is to survive, it must create a new technology, and the cycle of production, overpopulation, intensification, and depletion repeats itself. It is, according to Harris, in their progressive adaptation to these changing ecological modes that cultures adopt their characteristic forms, that kings and despots, slaves and citizens, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters assume their cultural roles.” (From the flap copy)
