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	Marvin Harris' Cultural Materialism
		Harris' framework is capable of integrating a diverse range of theoretical insights and empirical observations within its scope.
		MARVIN HARRIS, 74, provocative mainstream anthropologist who promoted "cultural materialism," the idea that human social life forms in response to practical problems; in Gainesville, Fla. Among his theories: Aztec cannibals were protein-deprived; warfare was a way of curbing populations when protein became scarce; and a necktie signaled that a man was above physical labor.
		Marvin Harris, 74, an anthropologist who espoused a number of controversial theories about the evolution of human cultures, among them the idea that Aztecs practiced ritualistic human sacrifice and cannibalism because they needed animal protein, died Oct. 25 in Gainesville, Fla., after hip surgery.
	www.faculty.rsu.edu /~felwell/Theorists/Harris/Index.htm (1312 words)

	December 2001 / January 2002 CLASnotes: In Memory Marvin Harris 1927-2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harris was an influential theorist in the field of anthropology for the past 50 years.
		Harris maintained, for example, that the Hindu elevation of the cow to sacred status, which might seem strange to beef-eating Westerners, could be viewed as a practical matter in a society where the animal's milk and usefulness for agricultural cultivation is essential for human survival.
		Harris served as president of the general anthropology section of the American Anthropological Association, and he was also a distinguished lecturer of the organization.
	clasnews.clas.ufl.edu /news/clasnotes/0112-0201/harris.html (310 words)

	Cultural Materialism
		Marvin Harris was interviewed by series producer Hazel Henderson, together with futurist James Robertson.
		Harris was an Associate professor of Anthropology, at Columbia, 1959-1963, and a professor from 1963 - 1980.
		Harris was among the pro-student faculty during the series of conflicts that culminated in an attack by New York City police on student and faculty protestors.
	www.cultural-materialism.org /cultural-materialism/harris.asp (4945 words)

	Marvin Harris: Explains The Unexplainable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harris: Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
		Harris: Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.
		Harris: The usual reason given for the prohibition on the consumption of pork is that the pig is regarded as a dirty animal; it is impure and unclean, and therefore not to be eaten.
	aurora.icaap.org /archive/harris.html (3882 words)

	Marvin Harris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marvin Harris (August 18, 1927 – October 25, 2001) was an American anthropologist and highly influential in the development of cultural materialism.
		Harris joined UF's anthropology department in 1981 and retired in 2000.
		Harris also served as the Chair of the General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marvin_Harris (376 words)

	Marvin Harris Biography / Biography of Marvin Harris World of Sociology Biography
		Harris was trained as an anthropologist, completing his Ph.D. at Columbia University during the early 1950s.
		Harris outlined a precise theoretical model of social evolution, applying it to the last ten thousand years of human existence.
		Harris also asserted that the human acquisition of the ability to speak was integral to the historical development of the variety of diverse cultures throughout the world.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-marvin-harris-soc (793 words)

	Cultural Materialism (Marvin Harris) - book review
		Harris accepts modern criticisms of narrow views of the scientific method, but argues that science is still special in some way, that it is not "just another cultural practice".
		Harris quite obviously believes that cultural materialism (or other research programs with a similar stress on the etic infrastructure) is the only valid scientific research strategy for the social sciences (or at least for anthropology; see below).
		While Harris' critique of sociobiology is pretty damning, even stronger criticism is possible from within biology itself, in the form of an attack on the narrowly adaptionist evolutionary paradigm employed by most sociobiologists.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Cultural_Materialism.html (1599 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Obituary: Marvin Harris
		Born in Brooklyn, Harris gained his PhD from Columbia university, where he began teaching in 1953; he moved to the University of Florida in 1981 as graduate research professor, where he stayed until his retirement in 2000.
		Antonio de Figueiredo writes: Marvin Harris had an important impact in the observation of the social and multiracial cultures in Latin America and particularly Brazil, where he was an adviser to the education ministry.
		Marvin Harris suggested I should go to the US, but on applying for a visa at the American consulate in London, I realised that the extensive questioning could only be based on information from the PIDE (Portuguese state police).
	education.guardian.co.uk /obituary/story/0,12212,750138,00.html (544 words)

	Marvin Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dr. Marvin Harris was born on August 18, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York.
		Harris is currently the Chair of the General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association.
		Dr. Marvin Harris is considered to be a generalist with an interest in the global processes that account for human origins and the evolution of human cultures.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/harris_marvin.html (231 words)

	Cultural Evolution: Peter Farb, Marvin Harris
		Author Marvin Harris also covers cultural evolution in his book, The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig, but only in relation to our food habits.
		Harris suggests that we in America think mice, rats, and cockroaches are filthy not because of their habits, but rather because they are not economical sources of food in our culture.
		Therefore, argues Harris, we scorn the uneconomical choices as being bad or filthy, even while people of some countries consider the same foods as delicacies.
	www.greenuniversity.net /Ideas_to_Change_the_World/FarbHarris.htm (716 words)

	Report on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		First off, we need to understand who Marvin Harris is. Marvin Harris attends the University of Florida, where he is a graduate research professor of Anthropology and the chair of the general division of the American Anthropological Association.
		Harris also states that for many more years than not, societies since the beginning of time have lived without some sort of a given leader.
		Harris ends his argument with a very perplexing question, "Will nature's experiment with mind end in nuclear war?" He says that in order to answer this question we need to be able to understand our past and why people act the way they do.
	www4.ncsu.edu:8030 /~twallace/ANT252LifeWithoutChiefsReport.htm (1466 words)

	Amazon.com: Cultural Materialism: Books: Marvin Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Marvin Harris is in the department of anthropology at the University of Florida.
		Harris spent his life fighting for a scientific approach to anthropology and this was his masterwork towards that goal.
		Marvin Harris' book, Cultural Materialism, is a must read for any student in the social sciences who intends to address issues of war and peace, environmental decline, and social justice.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394744268?v=glance (1423 words)

	Marvin Harris Is Dead
		Marvin Harris, an anthropologist who spent his career adding fuel to the fires of academic controversy, as when he theorized that the cannibalism of the Aztecs was motivated by protein deprivation, died on Thursday in Gainesville, Fla., where he lived.
		Dr. Harris, called "one of the most controversial anthropologists alive" by Smithsonian magazine in 1986, believed that human social life was shaped in response to the practical problems of human existence.
		Dr. Harris, who called his approach "cultural materialism," was an anthropology professor at Columbia University from 1953 until 1980, including three years as department chairman.
	www.khbo.be /~lodew/marvin_harris_is_dead.htm (714 words)

	books Our Kind : Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going; Marvin Harris at Book Information
		Marvin Harris, who fought for a scientific explaination 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.
		Harris harkens back to an evolutionary approach to anthropology and thoroughly explains many of the mysteries of human culture with the clearest empirical science.
		Harris was a masterful writer and always brings humor into the dryest and (sometimes) strangest cultural phenomena.
	ssl-myth.stories-more.com /detail.php?asin=0060919906&mode=books (611 words)

	Thomas N. Headland: Controversies: Etic-Emic Introduction
		Pike is a theist; Harris is a naturalist.
		Part of the confusion is that Pike and Harris not only do not use the concept in the same way, but that they differ in their applications and definitions of the terms.
		Harris himself does not cite Pike in the later editions of his anthropology texts (1985, 1987), even though he discusses the terms in several places in those books.
	www.sil.org /~headlandt/ee-intro.htm (4628 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Harris Marvin
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	uk.encarta.msn.com /Harris_Marvin.html (103 words)

	Marvin Harris Dies; Anthropologist, Educator, Writer (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Marvin Harris, 74, an anthropologist who espoused a number of controversial theories about the evolution of human cultures, among them the idea that Aztecs practiced ritualistic human sacrifice and cannibalism because they needed animal protein, died Oct. 25 in Gainesville, Fla., after hip surgery.
		Harris, who was born in Brooklyn, developed a guiding philosophy that human habits develop to fill basic needs in the most economical way.
		Harris earned his bachelor's degree and doctorate from Columbia University and taught there from 1952 to 1980, serving as chairman of its Anthropology Department for three years.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A14966-2001Oct30 (590 words)

	ISHK BOOK SERVICE - Recommended Reading
		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.
		Harris documents his provocative views on regulations governing comestibles in various cultures.
	ishkbooks.com /books/recommended_reading.html (4816 words)

	Harris, Marvin on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HARRIS, MARVIN [Harris, Marvin] 1927-2001, American anthropologist, b.
		Terry Harris, Kevin McGilton and Marvin Baden, all of Stuttgart, were part of a delegation of U.S. rice industry members led by the USA Rice Federation that met with officials of the Iraqi Grain Board to re-establish trade.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
		Cornelia Marvin and Mary Frances Isom: leaders of Oregon's library movement.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Harris-M1.asp (545 words)

	Marvin Harris -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		One of the most successful U.S. composers for film and stage, Marvin Hamlisch received a number of honors in recognition of his work, including Academy awards, Grammys, and a Tony.
		English author Alexander Harris is known for his Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods, an outstanding fictional account of life in Australia.
		Welsh-born Canadian artist Robert Harris was Canada's most recognized and influential portrait painter of the late 19th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039345 (667 words)

	Cultural Evolution: Peter Farb, Marvin Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Author Marvin Harris also covers cultural evolution in his book, The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig, but only in relation to our food habits.
		Harris suggests that we in America think mice, rats, and cockroaches are filthy not because of their habits, but rather because they are not economical sources of food in our culture.
		Therefore, argues Harris, we scorn the uneconomical choices as being bad or filthy, even while people of some countries consider the same foods as delicacies.
	www.hollowtop.com /cls_html/thestore/FarbHarris.htm (635 words)

	Institut d'ethnologie, Neuchâtel - 1999 - Séminaire 1- Bibliographie - Harris
		- Anthropology and the theoretical and paradigmatic significance of the collapse of Soviet and East European communism / Marvin Harris.
		- History and ideological significance of the separation of social and cultural anthropology / Marvin Harris.
		- The cultural ecology of India's sacred cattle / by Marvin Harris.
	www.unine.ch /ethno/biblio/1999harris.htm (505 words)

	Marvin Harris's Standardized Faces
		In the 1960s, Marvin Harris and his students carried out a series of systematic ethnographic studies of emic ethnic classification in Brazil.
		In this influential paper, Harris argued that emic ethnic classification in Brazil is characterized by uncertainty and disagreement, a view that is still widely held among scholars of ethnicity in Latin America.
		Harris's argument was based on structured ethnographic interviews in which he and his students asked Brazilian respondents to identify the qualidade of 72 standardized facial drawings.
	lance.qualquant.net /harris.htm (312 words)

	books Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches : The Riddles of Culture (Vintage); Marvin Harris at Book Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But the authors of the Gospels and their readers probably knew nothing about Judas of Galilee, so they preserved Jesus' highly provocative response on the mistaken assumption that it showed a genuinely concilliatory attitude toward the Roman government.
		Harris doesn't mention it, but his view of human culture is based on his anthropological paradigm known as cultural materialism.
		Instead of addressing one cause and demonstrating it's impact on the myth completly, he tends to introduce the point, and then just as quickly move on to the next point with out finalizing his point.
	ssl-myth.stories-more.com /detail.php?asin=0679724680&mode=books (1090 words)

	Amazon.ca: Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is no use to say that Harris does not provide the reader with a clear picture of theories of culture.
		The chapter on the fall of the Soviet Union is fascinating (and consistent with his theory of cultural materialism).
		Harris knows his subject - human culture from the perspective of cultural materialism - inside out.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0761990216 (486 words)

	Marvin Harris captures the essence of anthropology
		I'm reading Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches by the witty, wise, and blunt anthropologist Marvin Harris, and I think a quote from the preface of his book tidily sums up my reasons for picking anthro.
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	ETC: Cultural Material (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cultural Materialism is an approach to anthropology developed by Marvin Harris, who theorizes that material or ecological practices can account for socio-cultural conditions.
		A concept central to Harris’s theory is “intensification.” According to Harris ecological crises have historically resulted from the "intensification of production,” especially of food, to compensate for population increases.
		Intensified modes of material production, writes Harris, stand as “recurrent response[s] to threats against living standards” and further deplete the environment and lower the efficiency of production, thus perpetuating rather than alleviating ecological crises (Harris, Cannibals and Kings, p5).
	www.centenary.edu /etc/cultmaterial.html (527 words)

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