About this title: Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential starting point for explaining the science of ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc (T), New York
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394412405ISBN:0394412400
Description: VERY GOOD. 380 pgs. Unmarked text. Very slight wear. Dust jacket has a few tears. Small sticker on spine. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA. read more
Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394412405ISBN:0394412400
Description: Very Good + in Very Good jacket. DJ has some light normal edge wear. A critical study of popular culture and the rise of consumerism. 381 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394412405ISBN:0394412400
Description: Very Good in Good+ jacket. Second printing of the first edition. Comprehensive study of the theory and practice of anthropology. Bottom edge of book is soiled, bottom edge of boards is faded, jacket is edgeworn especially the top edge(including a small missing chip, and two small tears). read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394412405ISBN:0394412400
Description: Good/Very Good. 0394412400 The book has pen notes and underline markings on some of the pages. The jacket has the price clipped. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394412405ISBN:0394412400
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. 381 p. Anthropologist questions the theories and practices of his science, and puts forth a case for scientific method in his discipline, laying foundations for the science of culture. He puts aside the retreat into radical relativism, escapist mysticism and despair of knowledge itself, all common to his profession. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394412405ISBN:0394412400
Description: Fine in Near-Fine jacket. Stated First Edition-Price inside dustcover: $15.00-NO price clippings or remainder marks-Very-nice copy! -381 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394412405ISBN:0394412400
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cloth, gilt, xii, 381 pp., biblio., index; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, nicked once/tail edge, back cover, protected in a mylar book cover. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York, NY
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780394412405ISBN:0394412400
Description: VG+/VG+ W/Dust Jacket 381pp(Index) DJ nicked on top/bottom edges & has 1/2" tear & a few at bottom fore-edge corner area of front endpaper, o. w. clean, tight & Bright. No ink names, etc. Price is clipped. ISBN 0394412400. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
"I never fail to meet a conservation practicioner who has not reported what an eye-openner it was to read Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Diamond has popularized a whole area of Anthropology that has a long research tradition going back to at least Julian Steward in the 1950s. It is unfortunate that very few conservation minded folks are aware, much less well versed, in the cultural materialist research strategy. A large portion of Diamond's notions had previously been explored, if not developed, in cultural materialist (CM) and cultural ecology literature.
While I believe Harris' book Cultural Materialism is a must read, a good place to begin reading about the cultural materialist research strategy is Harris' 1977 book Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Culture. Copies of the book are available on the web for as little as $5.
Some practicioners of world systems research such as Christopher Chase-Dunn and Tom Abel have incorporated cultural materialist research and theories into their work. The result is a robust and coherently organized body of explanatory ideas that link history to a well rounded foundation of sociocultural elements that populate the human condition.
Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length presentation of the CM theory. Harris developed and modified his ideas over the folowing two decades. I highly recommend this book to undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences and to anyone who wishes to understand how causality might be operating in the world. The book is readily available used or in a new softcover edition that contains an newly written introduction by Orna and Allen Johnson."
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