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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.Sanderson, Stephen K. is the author of 'Studying Societies And Cultures Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism And Its Legacy', published 2006 under ISBN 9781594512872 and ISBN 1594512876.
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