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Cannibals and kings : the origins of cultures / Marvin Harris.
LIBRA Rare GN358.5 .H37 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social evolution.
- Culture--Origin.
- Human beings--Effect of environment on.
- Food supply.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 239 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1977]
- Contents:
- Culture and Nature
- Murders in Eden
- The Origin of Agriculture
- The Origin of War
- Proteins and the Fierce People
- The Origin of Male Supremacy and of the Oedipus Complex
- The Origin of Pristine States
- The Pre-Columbian States of Mesoamerica
- The Cannibal Kingdom
- The Lamb of Mercy
- Forbidden Flesh
- The Origin of the Sacred Cow
- The Hydraulic Trap
- The Origin of Capitalism
- The Industrial Bubble
- Epilogue and Moral Soliloquy.
- Notes:
- "First Edition."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-226) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1978".
- ISBN:
- 0394407652 :
- OCLC:
- 2984474
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