Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture
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Author: Harris, Marvin (1927-2001)
Publisher: Random House
Pub Date: 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Book: Fair to Good. Binding tight. No tears, bends or folds. Previous owner’s stamp on upper corners of ffep and title page. Light corner and edge wear. Dust Jacket: Fair. NOT price clipped. Private library label on lower spine. One approx. 3″ x 1/4″ chip and crease to upper rear edge. One small nick to recto edge of front cover, at flap edge. Previous owner’s name stamped on upper front cover corner. Edge and corner wear.
Notes: “Harris suggests that this strategy (cultural materialism) is the best approach to the many puzzles of anthropology and demonstrates how cultural materialism explains the endless variety of cultural behavior–from female infanticide to the sacred cow, from North American Indian myths of the coyote to the marital customs of the aboriginal Australians–as the adaptations of societies to their particular environments.” (from the front flap). Darwin–biological evolution, Marx–social evolution, Harris–cultural evolution?
