Studying societies and cultures
Subtitle: Marvin Harris's cultural materialism and its legacy
By: edited by Lawrence A. Kuznar and Stephen K. Sanderson.
Contributors: Kuznar, Lawrence A.; Sanderson, Stephen K.
Series: Studies in comparative social science
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781594512872
Subjects: Harris, Marvin, -- 1927-; Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.; Ethnology -- Philosophy.; Culture.; Social evolution.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: The impact of cultural materialism : a bibliometric analysis of the writings of Marvin Harris / Pamela Effrein Sandstrom and Howard D. White; title: The theoretical legacies of cultural materialism and Marvin Harris / James Lett; title: Cultural materialism, scientific anthropology, epistemology, and "narrative ethnographies of the particular" / H. Sidky; title: Cultural materialism, rational choice, and the problem of general ethnography : Marvin Harris and the struggle for science in anthropology / Alan R. Sandstrom; title: Materialist particularity in nuclear micronesia : a pre-postmodernist theory of cultural evolution / James G. Peoples; title: Linking past and present : cultural materialism, archaeology, and the medieval transition in the Aegean / P. Nick Kardulias; title: Effects of the physical and social environment on culture : results of cross-cultural tests / Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember; title: The effect of nepotism on the evolution of social inequality / Lawrence A. Kuznar, William G. Frederick, and Robert L. Sedlmeyer; title: Coevolutionary materialism / James W. Dow; title: Marvin Harris, meet Charles Darwin : a critical evaluation and theoretical extension of cultural materialism / Stephen K. Sanderson; title: What role does population pressure play in the evolutionary dynamics of Marvin Harris? / Robert L. Carneiro; title: Evolutionary materialism and Darwinian conflict theory : a critical analysis of Stephen Sanderson's extensions of cultural materialism / David P. Kennedy; title: When is a theoretical strategy not cultural materialism? : comments on Kennedy's critique of evolutionary materialism and Darwinian conflict theory / Stephen K. Sanderson.