Talk:Marvin Harris

message: I added the link to Columbia University faculty.  Source is I had him for a stimulating and interesting year in anthropology.Tham153 (talk) 17:44, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: faculty

message: The bibliography was long and unwieldy, so I moved it to List of Marvin Harris works. Stilgar135 16:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I found an obituary that says October, 25th 2001,  here .--Woland (talk) 14:19, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This section seems to favor Harris' (unreferenced) opinions over those of some unspecified feminists and academics, so I'm formally disputing its neutrality.
It talks very vaguely about an academic counter-reaction, of which I doubt there is any evidence, so I flagged the section as having original research.
66.7.119.32 (talk) 08:08, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theoretical Contributions 

message: Honestly, I read a book by M. Harris, and while I didn't agree with most of it I found it clear. This article is written in some PM lingo which totally obscures its content. Blah.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.181.13.145 (talk) 09:45, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This articleis bearly (barely?)readable 

message: I stumbled upon this article and was pretty surprised by this sentence in particular: 
"It is very unfortunate that so quick and politicized a reading of one of the many points Harris was making in the book served to disable, to any degree, a book that could have provided much of the badly-needed theoretical foundation that had been so sadly lacking in the political thinking of younger people in the Sixties and their cultural aftermath."
What's going on with this stuff about younger people in the Sixties? "Sadly lacking"? That section needs to be rewritten for sure.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.188.231.171 (talk) 01:33, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have to agree - major problems 

message: There is no doubt that Marvin Harris coined the term "Historical particularism" to lump Boas, Kroeber, and others in one of the movements in anthropology he disagreed with. 
But Boas and Kroeber did not identify themselves this way, nor did they agree over most things
Moreover, George Stocking - a real historian - does not lump these anthropologists together this way, nor does he identify this as a meaningful period in the history of anthropology. 
I made these comments at Historical particularism five years ago, when the article was just a stub.  It is still a stub, and I still hold the above views.  I think that this article should summarize Harris's main work, including his Rise of Anthropological Theory which was very influential in the US when it was published but is now practically never cited or referred to and has been superceded as a study of anthropological history.  It is clear that "historical particularism" is a way that Harris looked at anthropology, and not a "real" school of thought, so it belongs here. (or in a new article on RAT) Slrubenstein   |  Talk 12:25, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Historical particularism here 

message: Refer above to the very good take-down of the criticism section in the Theoretical Contributions section above. Much of it the criticism section makes no sense, and appears to have been taken from a freshman anthropology assignment. I've been BOLD and cut out much of the section. No doubt there is much criticism of Harris out there, but it just doesn't exist in this section, and seeing as the discussion above comes from 2009(!), I figured it was reasonable for me to dump what didn't belong. If someone wants to add a feminist critique to replace what I removed, have at it. 
MarkinBoston (talk) 23:08, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism section edits 

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