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Theories of culture in postmodern times / Marvin Harris.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 224 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761990208
  • 9780761990208
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 21
LOC classification:
  • GN357 .H39 1999
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-212) and index.

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.

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