Theories of culture in postmodern times / Marvin Harris.

Author: Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001.

Imprint:Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c1999.

Description224 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:What is (are) culture(s)? -- Emics and etics -- The nature of cultural things -- Science, objectivity, morality -- De-biologizing culture : the Boasians -- Biologizing inequality -- IQ is not forever -- Neo-Darwinism -- Confronting ethnomania -- Holism -- Cultural materialism -- Postmodernism -- Origins of capitalism -- The Soviet collapse.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-212) and index.

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