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The argumentation is convincing and interesting. - Goodreads It was fun and easy to read. - 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 - Kuulee - GoodreadsInteresting read! The book provides some compelling arguments regarding the origins of different cultures OR perspectives upon why people with different cultural backgrounds engage in certain ... Read full review Review: Cannibals and Kings: Origins of CulturesUser Review - Catalina - GoodreadsAfter reading some books I feel enriched with a better understanding of human nature, the sources that shaped us and society. Well Cannibals and Kings is one of the perfect books to help with such a ... Read full review Related books
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17 other sections not shown 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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