Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches:the Riddles of Culture: The Riddles of Culture - Couverture souple

HARRIS, MARVIN Y

 
9780394713724: Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches:the Riddles of Culture: The Riddles of Culture
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ISBN 10 : 0394713729 ISBN 13 : 9780394713724
Editeur : Random House USA Inc, 1975

Synopsis

Book by Harris Marvin

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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 USA Inc
Date d'édition
1975
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0394713729
ISBN 13 
9780394713724
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
276
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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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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