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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

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Cannibals and Kings
• Subtitle: Origins of Cultures
• Author: Marvin Harris
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780679728498
• ISBN: 9780679728498
• ID: 06581653
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Weight: 326 g
• Dimensions: 205 × 137 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. June 1991

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