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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 American ancient animal protein anthropologists archaeologists Aztec band and village became Bunyoro Butzer calories cannibalism cattle central century chiefs China Chinese combat complex cost/benefits costs crops cultural death despite dynastic eating ecological Egypt empires enemy Europe evolution explain farming female infanticide feudal flesh forest grain highland human sacrifice hunter-collectors hunters hunting hydraulic increase India intensification Iroquois irrigation Israelites Karl Butzer kill king labor land MacNeish male supremacist matrilineal matrilocal Maya meat Mesoamerica Mesopotamia Mexico mode of production mother’s mumi natural Old World Olmec paleolithic peasants percent Peten plants political polygyny population density population growth practice prisoners protein region religions reproductive pressures Richard MacNeish rise ritual River role sex ratio slaughter species standard of living stone age subsistence taboo Tehuacán temples Teotihuacán theory Tikal Trobriand upper paleolithic Valley village societies Wittfogel women Yanomamo Yucatán Peninsula zones Bibliographic information
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