ISBN:
9781594512872
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (345 p)
Series Statement:
Studies in Comparative Social Science
Parallel Title:
Print version Studying Societies and Cultures : Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and its Legacy
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Potentials and Challenges of Cultural Materialism; Part I The Legacy of Cultural Materialism: I; Chapter 1 The Impact of Cultural Materialism: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Writings of Marvin Harris; Chapter 2 The Theoretical Legacies of Cultural Materialism and Marvin Harris; Part II The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism; Chapter 3 Cultural Materialism, Scientific Anthropology, Epistemology, and "Narrative Ethnographies of the Particular"
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4 Cultural Materialism, Rational Choice, and the Problem of General Ethnography: Marvin Harris and the Struggle for Science in AnthropologyPart III Applications of Cultural Materialism; Chapter 5 Materialist Particularity in Nuclear Micronesia: A Pre-Postmodernist Theory of Cultural Evolution; Chapter 6 Linking Past and Present: Cultural Materialism, Archaeology, and the Medieval Transition in the Aegean; Chapter 7 Effects of the Physical and Social Environment on Culture: Results of Cross-Cultural Tests; Part IV The Darwinian Challenge to Cultural Materialism
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8 The Effect of Nepotism on the Evolution of Social InequalityChapter 9 Coevolutionary Materialism; Chapter 10 Marvin Harris, Meet Charles Darwin: A Critical Evaluation and Theoretical Extension of Cultural Materialism; Part V The Legacy of Cultural Materialism: II; Chapter 11 What Role Does Population Pressure Play in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Marvin Harris?; Chapter 12 Evolutionary Materialism and Darwinian Conflict Theory: A Critical Analysis of Stephen Sanderson's Extensions of Cultural Materialism
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 13 When Is a Theoretical Strategy Not Cultural Materialism? Comments on Kennedy's Critique of Evolutionary Materialism and Darwinian Conflict TheoryAppendix A: Requiscat in Pace-Obituaries of Marvin Harris "Marvin Harris, 74, Is Dead; Professor Was Iconoclast of Anthropologists"; "Marvin Harris (1927-2001)"; Selected Other Obituaries of Marvin Harris; Appendix B: Bibliography of Marvin Harris, 1952-2001,; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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