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Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture First Edition
Author(s): Marvin Harris (Author)
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 1979
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 381 pages
- ISBN-10: 0394412400
- ISBN-13: 9780394412405
Book Description
Attributing the origins and development of culture to the ways various societies adapt to their particular environments, Harris pits his theory of cultural materialism against such alternative theories of culture as Wilson’s sociobiology and Levi-Strauss’s structuralism
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About the Author
Marvin Harris is graduate research professor at the University of Florida.
