Cows- Pigs- Wars- & Witches: The Riddles of Culture - Couverture rigide

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9780394483382: Cows- Pigs- Wars- & Witches: The Riddles of Culture
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ISBN 10 : 0394483383 ISBN 13 : 9780394483382
Editeur : Random House Trade, 1989

Synopsis

Rebound by library. Library sticker on cover.This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition, suitable as a study copy.No dust jacket.

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Biographie de l'auteur

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 ethinic 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 popoular 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 others books inlcue Cannibals and Kings and Cultural Materialism.

Présentation de l'éditeur

One of America's leading anthropolgists 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 intelligble sources.

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Éditeur
Random House Trade
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0394483383
ISBN 13 
9780394483382
Reliure
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780679724681: Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0679724680 ISBN 13 :  9780679724681
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989
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