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In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Martin 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. (Verlagstext)

 

/ AUS DEM INHALT: / / / Introduction | ix

 

1Culture and Nature | 3

 

2Murders in Eden | 11

 

3The Origin of Agriculture | 29

 

4The Origin of War | 47

 

5Proteins and the Fierce People | 67

 

6The Origin of Male Supremacy and of the Oedipus Complex | 81

 

7The Origin of Pristine States | 101

 

8The Pre-Columbian States of Mesoamerica | 127

 

9The Cannibal Kingdom | 147

 

10The Lamb of Mercy | 169

 

11Forbidden Flesh | 193

 

12The Origin of the Sacred Cow | 211

 

13The Hydraulic Trap | 233

 

14The Origin of Capitalism | 251

 

15The Industrial Bubble | 271

 

Epilogue and Moral Soliloquy | 287

 

Acknowledgements, References, and Notes | 295

 

Bibliography | 307

 

Index | 337