{"product_id":"cannibals-and-kings-origins-of-cultures-067972849x-used","title":"Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 067972849X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Harris, Marvin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\"[A] magisterial interpretation of the rise and fall of human cultures and societies.\"-- Robert Lekachman, Washington Post Book World\"Its persuasive arguments asserting the primacy of cultural rather than genetic or psychological factors in human life deserve the widest possible audience.\"-- Gloria Levitas The New Leader\"[An] original and...urgent theory about the nature of man and at the reason that human cultures take so many diverse shapes.\"-- The New Yorker\"Lively and controversial.\"-- I. Bernard Cohen, front page, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67587277160736,"sku":"USED067972849X","price":19.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/714FpCo4MQL.jpg?v=1790571096","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/cannibals-and-kings-origins-of-cultures-067972849x-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}