Beyond the myths of culture : essays in cultural materialism / edited by Eric B. Ross.
| Uniform Title: | Studies in anthropology (Academic Press)
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| Language: | English |
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London ; San Francisco :
Academic Press,
1980.
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| Series: | Studies in anthropology (Academic Press)
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| Physical Description: | xxix, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Flux among the Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Forest: an ecological interpretation / William S. Abruzzi
- Ecology and the problem of tribe: a critique of the Hobbesian model of preindustrial warfare / Jane Bennett Ross
- Ethnographic overproduction, tribal political economy, and the Kapauku of Irian Jaya / Robert Paynter and John W. Cole
- Systems levels interaction in the Texas hill country ecosystem: structure, history, and evolution / Anthony Leeds
- Local ecology and the state: implications of contemporary Quechua land use for the Inca sequence of agricultural work / William P. Mitchell
- The truth is not in accounts but in account books: on the epistemological status of history / Barbara J. price
- Patterns of diet and forces of production: an economic and ecological history of the ascendancy of beef in the United States diet / Eric B. Ross
- The material conditions of variation in Betsileo ceremonial life / Conrad Phillip Kottak
- On being an untouchable in India: a materialist perspective / Joan P. Mencher
- Population pressure, land tenure, and voodoo: the economic of Haitian peasant ritual / Gerald F. Murray
- Trousseau as treasure: some contributions of late nineteenth-century change in Sicily / Jane Schneider
- Rethinking Leach's structural analysis of color and instructional categories in traffic control signals / Frederick C. Gamst
- History and ideological significance of the separation of social and cultural anthropology / Marvin Harris.