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The argumentation is convincing and interesting. - Goodreads They seek adaptive explanations for everything. - Goodreads I'm not saying I agree with this premise, or disagree. - Goodreads Review: Cannibals and Kings: Origins of CulturesUser Review - Katelis Viglas - GoodreadsI read it in an electronic format. The argumentation is convincing and interesting. Marvin Harris is an original writer, who developed the theory of cultural materialism in extenso. But the book is ... Read full review Review: Cannibals and Kings: Origins of CulturesUser Review - James Curcio - GoodreadsThis book provides a great deal of compelling anthropological thought; it focuses on a systemic view of the ebbs and flows of culture, and has been quite a mind-fuck for me, as I've been reading it in ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesagriculture ancient animal protein anthropologists Aztec band and village became breadnut Bunyoro Butzer calories cannibalism cattle cent central centres century Chagnon chiefs China Chinese combat complex cost/benefits costs crops cultural death decline depletion despite eating ecological efficient empires enemy Europe evolution explain feast female infanticide feudal forest goats grain human sacrifice hunter-collectors hunters hunting hydraulic increase India intensification Iroquois irrigation Israelites Karl Butzer kill labour land male supremacy matrilineal matrilocal Maya meat Mesoamerica Mesopotamia Mexico mode of production mumi natural Oedipus complex Old World Olmec palaeolithic peasants Peten plants political polygyny population density population growth practised pre-state prisoners protein redistributive regions religions reproductive pressures Richard MacNeish rise ritual River role sex ratio slash-and-burn slaughter species standard of living stone age subsistence taboo Tehuacan temples Teotihuacan theory Tikal tion Trobriand Valley village societies Wittfogel women Yanomamo zones Bibliographic information
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