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Theories of culture in postmodern times

Title
Theories of culture in postmodern times / Marvin Harris.
Author
Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001.
Publication
Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, ©1999.

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Description
224 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Bürger, Christa 1935-
  • Culture
  • Ethnology > Philosophy
  • Anthropology > Philosophy
  • Culture
  • culture note
  • Anthropologie
  • Kulturanthropologie
  • Kulturtheorie
  • Kultursoziologie
  • Postmoderne
  • Cultuur
  • Culturele antropologie
  • Theorieën
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-212) and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0761990208
  • 9780761990208
  • 0761990216
  • 9780761990215
  • 0761920216 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 98040132
  • 9780761990208
OCLC
  • ocm39838174
  • 39838174
  • SCSB-571686
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library