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Sto caricando le informazioni... Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (originale 1977; edizione 1991)di Marvin Harris (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I read this for an Anthropology of Religion class at the College of Charleston. It was fun and easy to read. ( ) Precursor to Jared Diamond's more extensive "Guns, Germs and Steal," Harris posits a form of cultural determinism that explains the development of different cultural forms through ecological forces. A potentially dry topic is made grimly fascinating by his combination of engaging prose, dry wit and eye for morbid turns of phrase. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show how cultures adopt their characteristic forms in response to changing ecological modes. "[A] magisterial interpretation of the rise and fall of human cultures and societies." -- Robert Lekachman, Washington Post Book World "Its persuasive arguments asserting the primacy of cultural rather than genetic or psychological factors in human life deserve the widest possible audience." -- Gloria Levitas The New Leader "[An] original and...urgent theory about the nature of man and at the reason that human cultures take so many diverse shapes." -- The New Yorker "Lively and controversial." -- I. Bernard Cohen, front page, The New York Times Book Review Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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