{"product_id":"cannibals-and-kings-origins-of-cultures","title":"Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A] magisterial interpretation of the rise and fall of human cultures and societies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-- Robert Lekachman, Washington Post Book World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Its persuasive arguments asserting the primacy of cultural rather than genetic or psychological factors in human life deserve the widest possible audience.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-- Gloria Levitas The New Leader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"[An] original and...urgent theory about the nature of man and at the reason that human cultures take so many diverse shapes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-- The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lively and controversial.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-- I. Bernard Cohen, front page, The New York Times Book Review, ISBN13: 9780679728498 ISBN10: 067972849X Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124577947811,"sku":"A.27.4 F_04-29-25_ART_H000071Y","price":16.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/714FpCo4MQL.jpg?v=1754813952","url":"https:\/\/usedbookdepot.com\/products\/cannibals-and-kings-origins-of-cultures","provider":"Used Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}