|
|
Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy
Lawrence A. Kuznar, Stephen K. Sanderson
Lawrence A. Kuznar, Stephen K. Sanderson
ISBN: 9781594512872
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Paradigm
Write a review
One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book analyzes Harris's theories and their important legacies. It explores cultural materialism's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures.
"A thought-provoking, stimulating volume on the past, present and future of cultural materialism that is both laudatory of Harris' research strategy and critical of it." Paul Shankman, University of Colorado One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book accessibly analyzes Harris's theories and their important legacies today. The chapters explore cultural materialism's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures. The authors assess recent attempts to extend and reformulate cultural materialism and highlight cross-cultural, archaeological, and ethnographic applications of cultural materialism today.
| ISBN | 1594512876 | | Pages | 344 | | ISBN13 | 9781594512872
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Paradigm | | Weight (grammes) | 590 | | Imprint | Paradigm | | Published in | E. Boulder | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Studies in Comparative Social Science | | Publication date | 22 Jan 2007 | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Library of Congress | 2006021982 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 301 | | Spine width (mm) | 29 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
|
| |
| | | Introduction : the potentials and challenges of cultural materialism by Lawrence A. Kuznar and Stephen K. Sanderson | | 1 | | Ch. 1 | | The impact of cultural materialism : a bibliometric analysis of the writings of Marvin Harris by Pamela Effrein Sandstrom and Howard D. White | | 20 | | Ch. 2 | | The theoretical legacies of cultural materialism and Marvin Harris by James Lett | | 56 | | Ch. 3 | | Cultural materialism, scientific anthropology, epistemology, and "narrative ethnographies of the particular" by H. Sidky | | 66 | | Ch. 4 | | Cultural materialism, rational choice, and the problem of general ethnography : Marvin Harris and the struggle for science in anthropology by Alan R. Sandstrom | | 78 | | Ch. 5 | | Materialist particularity in nuclear micronesia : a pre-postmodernist theory of cultural evolution by James G. Peoples | | 104 | | Ch. 6 | | Linking past and present : cultural materialism, archaeology, and the medieval transition in the Aegean by P. Nick Kardulias | | 128 | | Ch. 7 | | Effects of the physical and social environment on culture : results of cross-cultural tests by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember | | 153 | | Ch. 8 | | The effect of Nepotism on the evolution of social inequality by Lawrence A. Kuznar and William G. Frederick and Robert L. Sedlmeyer | | 168 | | Ch. 9 | | Coevolutionary materialism by James W. Dow | | 180 | | Ch. 10 | | Marvin Harris, meet Charles Darwin : a critical evaluation and theoretical extension of cultural materialism by Stephen K. Sanderson | | 194 | | Ch. 11 | | What role does population pressure play in the evolutionary dynamics of Marvin Harris? by Robert L. Carneiro | | 230 | | Ch. 12 | | Evolutionary materialism and Darwinian conflict theory : a critical analysis of Stephen Sanderson's extensions of cultural materialism by David P. Kennedy | | 238 | | Ch. 13 | | When is a theoretical strategy not cultural materialism? : comments on Kennedy's critique of evolutionary materialism and Darwinian conflict theory by Stephen K. Sanderson | | 256 | | App | | Requiscat in pace - obituaries of Marvin Harris : "Marvin Harris, 74, is dead; Professor was iconoclast of anthropologists" by Douglas Martin | | 261 | | | More... | | |
|
|
|
|
|
Enlarge
