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Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 573.2
EAN: 9780060919900
ISBN: 0060919906
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: September 26, 1990
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: September 26, 1990
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Editorial Review:
Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny.
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Rating:  - Cultural Anthropology for almost any reading level
Anthropology initially meant the mother discipline under which Dr. Jones cracked his whip in his spare time. Reading this book enriched that image by drawing me to the science and the dirty detail work without which Dr. Jones would simply be a caricature. Incidentally, my professor in Anthropology loved to point out how he hated the mainstream misconceptions about his field being propagated by Hollywood. But seriously, if you can look in the mirror and be able to accept what might be a most frightening ... Read More
Rating: - A Must Read!!
Marvin Harris, Thank You! Wonderful book. I'm making my kids read and recommend it to all. You won't be sorry.
Rating: - How we got to be this way
Anthropologist Marvin Harris has concocted a highly readable overview of the bipedal hominids currently dominating life on Big Blue. In easily grasped chunks the author considers most of the genetic, behavioral and social changes in our history, and drawing on extensive scholarship he offers many surprising (and doubtless, controversial) insights into those processes. Typical of his fresh approach is a radical suggestion about the origin of our large brains. You were probably taught, as was I, that big ... Read More
Rating: - Cultural materialism for the layperson
Marvin Harris, who fought for a scientific explanation of human thought and behavior against postmodernist obscurantism and other attempts at explaining humans, brought together in this book all of his various theories about human cultures. From his contention that cannibalism occured in Aztec religion because of a lack of other protein sources in the Valley of Mexico to his basic theory of probabilistic infrastructural determinism he was always controversial.
This is an excellent book to read ... Read More
Rating: - Everything you've always wanted to know about the human race
Marvin Harris was a brilliant anthropologist - he died a few years ago - and this book sets out, in the language of normal people, the state of knowledge (to the time of writing) on the subject of humankind: what exactly we are, how we came to be like this, and even more interestingly from my point of view, WHY. The book is divided into very short chapters, little jewels of concision, beautifully and entertainingly written. Basically, the book takes theories which would be dry as dust in someone else's prose ... Read More
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