An edition of Studying societies and cultures
(2006)
Studying societies and cultures
Marvin Harris's cultural materialism and its legacy
by Lawrence A. Kuznar, Stephen K. Sanderson, and Lawrence Kuznar
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Culture, Ethnology, Social evolution, Philosophy, Biography, Anthropologists, Anthropology, United States, Anthropology - General, Social Science, Archaeology / Anthropology, Sociology, Anthropology - Cultural, Social Science / Anthropology / General, Ethnology, philosophy, United states, biography, Anthropologues, Biographies, Ethnologie, Philosophie, Évolution sociale, General, Regional StudiesPeople
Marvin Harris (1927-)Places
United States
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Table of Contents
The impact of cultural materialism : a bibliometric analysis of the writings of Marvin Harris / Pamela Effrein Sandstrom and Howard D. White
The theoretical legacies of cultural materialism and Marvin Harris / James Lett
Cultural materialism, scientific anthropology, epistemology, and "narrative ethnographies of the particular" / H. Sidky
Cultural materialism, rational choice, and the problem of general ethnography : Marvin Harris and the struggle for science in anthropology / Alan R. Sandstrom
Materialist particularity in nuclear micronesia : a pre-postmodernist theory of cultural evolution / James G. Peoples
Linking past and present : cultural materialism, archaeology, and the medieval transition in the Aegean / P. Nick Kardulias
Effects of the physical and social environment on culture : results of cross-cultural tests / Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember
The effect of nepotism on the evolution of social inequality / Lawrence A. Kuznar, William G. Frederick, and Robert L. Sedlmeyer
Coevolutionary materialism / James W. Dow
Marvin Harris, meet Charles Darwin : a critical evaluation and theoretical extension of cultural materialism / Stephen K. Sanderson
What role does population pressure play in the evolutionary dynamics of Marvin Harris? / Robert L. Carneiro
Evolutionary materialism and Darwinian conflict theory : a critical analysis of Stephen Sanderson's extensions of cultural materialism / David P. Kennedy
When is a theoretical strategy not cultural materialism? : comments on Kennedy's critique of evolutionary materialism and Darwinian conflict theory / Stephen K. Sanderson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-312) and index.
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