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Preface | p. vii |
List of Contributors | p. ix |
Introduction: The Potentials and Challenges of Cultural Materialism | p. 1 |
The Legacy of Cultural Materialism: I | |
The Impact of Cultural Materialism: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Writings of Marvin Harris | p. 20 |
The Theoretical Legacies of Cultural Materialism and Marvin Harris | p. 56 |
The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism | |
Cultural Materialism, Scientific Anthropology, Epistemology, and "Narrative Ethnographies of the Particular" | p. 66 |
Cultural Materialism, Rational Choice, and the Problem of General Ethnography: Marvin Harris and the Struggle for Science in Anthropology | p. 78 |
Applications of Cultural Materialism | |
Materialist Particularity in Nuclear Micronesia: A Pre-Postmodernist Theory of Cultural Evolution | p. 104 |
Linking Past and Present: Cultural Materialism, Archaeology, and the Medieval Transition in the Aegean | p. 128 |
Effects of the Physical and Social Environment on Culture: Results of Cross-Cultural Tests | p. 153 |
The Darwinian Challenge to Cultural Materialism | |
The Effect of Nepotism on the Evolution of Social Inequality | p. 168 |
Coevolutionary Materialism | p. 180 |
Marvin Harris, Meet Charles Darwin: A Critical Evaluation and Theoretical Extension of Cultural Materialism | p. 194 |
The Legacy of Cultural Materialism: II | |
What Role Does Population Pressure Play in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Marvin Harris? | p. 230 |
Evolutionary Materialism and Darwinian Conflict Theory: A Critical Analysis of Stephen Sanderson's Extensions of Cultural Materialism | p. 238 |
When Is a Theoretical Strategy Not Cultural Materialism? Comments on Kennedy's Critique of Evolutionary Materialism and Darwinian Conflict Theory | p. 256 |
Requiscat in Pace-Obituaries of Marvin Harris "Marvin Harris, 74, Is Dead; Professor Was Iconoclast of Anthropologists" | p. 261 |
"Marvin Harris (1927-2001)" | p. 263 |
Selected Other Obituaries of Marvin Harris | p. 268 |
Bibliography of Marvin Harris, 1952-2001 | p. 269 |
References | p. 285 |
Index | p. 313 |
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