Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy

By Stephen K. Sanderson and Lawrence Kuznar

Book Overview

One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book analyzes Harris's theories and their important legacies. It explores cultural materialism's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594512884
• ISBN13: 9781594512889
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"