Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
The Riddles of Culture
$36.74
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
23 April 1990
Summary
One of America’s leading anthropologists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do.
Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches?
Marvin Harris answers these and other perplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre a people’s behavior may seem, it always stems from identifiable and intelligible sources.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679724681 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679724680 |
| Author: | Marvin Harris |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 23 April 1990 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 131mm x 201mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Marvin Harris
Marvin Harris taught at Columbia University from 1953 and from 1963 to 1966 was Chairman of the Department of Anthropology. He has lectured by invitation at most of the major colleges and universities in the United States.
In addition to field work in Brazil, Mozambique, and Ecuador on the subjects of cross-cultural aspects of race and ethnic relations, the effects of colonialism, and problems of underdevelopment seen in ecological perspective, Harris pioneered in the use of videotape techniques in the study of family life in this country.
Author of several books, among them the influential Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture and the popular undergraduate text Culture, Man and Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology, Harris wrote frequently for Natural History magazine and was a frequent contributor to the professional journals, American Anthropologist and Current Anthropology. His other books include Cannibals and Kings and Cultural Materialism.
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