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Cannibals and Kings
The Origins of Cultures
By Marvin Harris
Hardbound: 239 pages
Publisher: Random House, New York
1977 - First Edition
Legendary anthropologist Marvin Harris is perhaps the most readable ethnological
writer of all. He also wrote the celebrated Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches.
Mainly Harris is marvelously satirical. The narrative sparkles with put downs of
religiosity or any sort of sanctimonious BS. Harris pronounces from on high, however.
In this book Harris descrobes that all human taboos even those against murder may
be culturally derived, rather than instinctively based. The horror stories that he
focuses on here, especially about the Aztec cannibals, seem to prove that if we want
protein enough and can't get it, we will as a people set up a quasie-religion that
makes it sacred to kill whatever is available, including prisoners of war, as the
Aztecs did, to get that protein. Plus there is a brief biographical note in the
beginning of the book.
Black cloth spine, tan boards with gilt initials at top front.
Dust Jacket is missing, but in excellent condition.
Order by #BKS-88-07
PRICE: $12.95
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