What are anthropologists good for?

| May 8, 2010

Review of Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings, New York: Random House, 1977. Marvin Harris became one of the most influential populizers of anthropology on the basis of his historical analysis in Cultural Materialism and Cannibals and Kings. Harris theorizes about the formation of the strong state systems that dominate history. He believes that agriculture arose […]