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In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show how cultures adopt their characteristic forms in response to changing ecological modes.

[A] magisterial interpretation of the rise and fall of human cultures and societies.

-- Robert Lekachman, Washington Post Book World

Its persuasive arguments asserting the primacy of cultural rather than genetic or psychological factors in human life deserve the widest possible audience.

-- Gloria Levitas The New Leader

[An] original and...urgent theory about the nature of man and at the reason that human cultures take so many diverse shapes.

-- The New Yorker

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    Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 6/4/1991 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780679728498, 978-0679728498
    ISBN10: 067972849X

    Number of Pages: 368

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show how cultures adopt their characteristic forms in response to changing ecological modes.

    [A] magisterial interpretation of the rise and fall of human cultures and societies.

    -- Robert Lekachman, Washington Post Book World

    Its persuasive arguments asserting the primacy of cultural rather than genetic or psychological factors in human life deserve the widest possible audience.

    -- Gloria Levitas The New Leader

    [An] original and...urgent theory about the nature of man and at the reason that human cultures take so many diverse shapes.

    -- The New Yorker

    Lively and controv

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