Title: Beyond the myths of culture : essays in cultural materialism /
Authors: Ross, Eric B.
Publisher: Academic Press,
Year: 1980
Subjects: Marxist anthropology.; Culture.; Ethnology.; Economic anthropology.
Contents: Flux among the Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Forest: an ecological interpretation / William S. Abruzzi -- Ecology and the problem of tribe: a critique of the Hobbesian model of preindustrial warfare / Jane Bennett Ross -- Ethnographic overproduction, tribal political economy, and the Kapauku of Irian Jaya / Robert Paynter and John W. Cole -- Systems levels interaction in the Texas hill country ecosystem: structure, history, and evolution / Anthony Leeds -- Local ecology and the state: implications of contemporary Quechua land use for the Inca sequence of agricultural work / William P. Mitchell -- The truth is not in accounts but in account books: on the epistemological status of history / Barbara J. price -- Patterns of diet and forces of production: an economic and ecological history of the ascendancy of beef in the United States diet / Eric B. Ross -- The material conditions of variation in Betsileo ceremonial life / Conrad Phillip Kottak -- On being an untouchable in India: a materialist perspective / Joan P. Mencher -- Population pressure, land tenure, and voodoo: the economic of Haitian peasant ritual / Gerald F. Murray -- Trousseau as treasure: some contributions of late nineteenth-century change in Sicily / Jane Schneider -- Rethinking Leach's structural analysis of color and instructional categories in traffic control signals / Frederick C. Gamst -- History and ideological significance of the separation of social and cultural anthropology / Marvin Harris.