Cannibals and Kings
Author | : Marvin Harris |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Culture |
ISBN | : 9780002161206 |
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Author | : Marvin Harris |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Culture |
ISBN | : 9780002161206 |
Author | : Marvin Harris |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2011-07-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307801233 |
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
Author | : Marvin Harris |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Neil L. Whitehead |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271037997 |
"Translations of the earliest accounts, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, of the native peoples of the Americas, including Columbus's descriptions of his first voyage. Documents the emergence of a primal anthropology and how Spanish ethnological classifications were integral to colonial discovery, occupation, and conquest"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Marvin Harris |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-07-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307801225 |
One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches? Marvin Harris answers these and other perplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from identifiable and intelligble sources.
Author | : Marvin Harris |
Publisher | : AltaMira Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2001-08-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0759116962 |
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 culture to students. Now available again after a hiatus, this edition of Cultural Materialism contains the complete text of the original book plus a new introduction by Orna and Allen Johnson that updates his ideas and examines the impact that the book and theory have had on anthropological theorizing.
Author | : Marvin Harris |
Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1990-09-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780060919900 |
Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny.
Author | : Ricki Thompson |
Publisher | : Front Street, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590786238 |
In 1536 England, sixteen-year-old Dell runs away from her brutal father and life in a cave carrying only a hand-made puppet to travel to London, where she learns truths about her mother's death and the conflict between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church.
Author | : Marvin Harris |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761990215 |
In this book, Marvin Harris presents his current views on the nature of culture addressing such issues as the mental/behavioral debate, emics and etics, and anthropological holism.
Author | : Richard Sugg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317354885 |
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. In this comprehensive and accessible text, Richard Sugg shows that, far from being a medieval therapy, corpse medicine was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain, surviving well into the eighteenth century and, amongst the poor, lingering stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria. Ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in fact the Europeans. Picking our way through the bloodstained shadows of this remarkable secret history, we encounter medicine cut from bodies living and dead, sacks of human fat harvested after a gun battle, gloves made of human skin, and the first mummy to appear on the London stage. Lit by the uncanny glow of a lamp filled with human blood, this second edition includes new material on exo-cannibalism, skull medicine, the blood-drinking of Scandinavian executions, Victorian corpse-stroking, and the magical powers of candles made from human fat. In our quest to understand the strange paradox of routine Christian cannibalism we move from the Catholic vampirism of the Eucharist, through the routine filth and discomfort of early modern bodies, and in to the potent, numinous source of corpse medicine’s ultimate power: the human soul itself. Now accompanied by a companion website with supplementary articles, interviews with the author, related images, summaries of key topics, and a glossary, the second edition of Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of medicine, early modern history, and the darker, hidden past of European Christendom.