Cows- Pigs- Wars- & Witches: The Riddles of Culture - Hardcover

Marvin Harris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394483383 ISBN 13: 9780394483382

Publisher: Random House, 1974

Synopsis

Cows- Pigs- Wars- & Witches: The Riddles of Culture

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About the Author

Marvin Harris taught at Columbia University from 1953 and from 1963 to 1966 was Chairman of the Department of Anthropology. He has lectured by invitation at most of the major colleges and universities in the United States. In addition to field work in Brazil, Mozambique, and Ecuador on the subjects of cross-cultural aspects of race and ethinic relations, the effects of colonialism, and problems of underdevelopment seen in ecological perspective, Harris pioneered in the use of videotape techniques in the study of family life in this country.

Author of several books, among them the influential Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture and the popoular undergraduate text Culture, Man and Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology, Harris wrote frequently for Natural History magazine and was a frequent contributor to the professional journals, American Anthropologist and Current Anthropology. His others books inlcue Cannibals and Kings and Cultural Materialism.

From the Inside Flap

This book challenges those who argue that we can change the world by changing the way people think. Harris shows that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from concrete social and economic conditions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394483383
• ISBN 13: 9780394483382
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1