Cannibals and Kings-Marvin Harris (epub) torrent

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures


By Marvin Harris

Published by Vintage Books in 1991

English, 368 pages


In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show how cultures adopt their characteristic forms in response to changing ecological modes