Lawrence A Kuznar, Stephen K Sanderson

Studying Societies and Cultures

Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book accessibly analyzes Harris 's theories and their important legacies today. The chapters explore cultural materialism 's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures. The authors assess recent attempts to extend and reformulate cultural materialism and highlight cross-cultural, archaeological, and ethnographic applications of cultural materialism today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781594512872
• ISBN-10: 1594512876
• Artikelnr.: 21139358

Autorenporträt

Lawrence A. Kuznar, Stephen K. Sanderson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Potentials and Challenges of Cultural Materialism
I: The Legacy of Cultural Materialism: I
1: The Impact of Cultural Materialism
2: The Theoretical Legacies of Cultural Materialism and Marvin Harris
II: The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism
3: Cultural Materialism, Scientific Anthropology, Epistemology, and "Narrative Ethnographies of the Particular"
4: Cultural Materialism, Rational Choice, and the Problem of General Ethnography
III: Applications of Cultural Materialism
5: Materialist Particularity in Nuclear Micronesia
6: Linking Past and Present
7: Effects of the Physical and Social Environment on Culture
IV: The Darwinian Challenge to Cultural Materialism
8: The Effect of Nepotism on the Evolution of Social Inequality
9: Coevolutionary Materialism
10: Marvin Harris, Meet Charles Darwin
V: The Legacy of Cultural Materialism: II
11: What Role Does Population Pressure Play in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Marvin Harris?
12: Evolutionary Materialism and Darwinian Conflict Theory
13: When Is a Theoretical Strategy Not Cultural Materialism?