India (Sacred Cattle)
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001
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content: Marvin Harris papers
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content: Marvin Harris papers / Series 2: Research
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1962-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2009-27, Subseries 2.3
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content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Folders are arranged alphabetically.
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content: In his article, "The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle" (1966), Harris hypothesized that the Hindu taboo of eating cattle was a result of economic and environmental factors in India. This sub-series documents the debates surrounding the controversial theory and includes his statistical analysis, notes from his field research in India in 1967, correspondence, and papers and articles by others on the subject. This sub-series also contains Harris' collection of Indian wall calendar art that he refers to in Good to Eat (1998, 49); one is similar to the drawing that accompanied "India's Sacred Cow" in Human Nature Magazine.