1927-2002
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Required Reading:
Macrosociology: Four Modern Theorists, Chapter 2: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism
Recommended Reading:
Cultural Materialism by Jon Marcoux
Links:
Marvin
Harris' Cultural Materialism
Some Short Takes:
I believe Marvin Harris to be the most outstanding social scientist of his
generation....Like the founders of the discipline (and unlike most social
scientists of the day) he relates his analysis to the larger social system...His
theory of cultural materialism is a ecological-evolutionary social theory very
much influenced by T. Robert Malthus and Karl Marx....In addition to writing for
a professional audience Harris also writes for a broader public.
Harris' Major Works:
1968. The Rise of Anthropological Theory. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
1971. Culture, Man, and Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
1974. Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture. New York: Vintage.
1977. Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures. New York: Vintage.
1979. Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture. New York: Random House.
1981. America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture. New York: Simon & Schuster.
1985. Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture. Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.
1990. Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, and Where We Are Going. New York: Harper Collins.
1999. Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times. California: AltaMira
Press.
