{"product_id":"9780394727004","title":"Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures","description":" In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin 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.\u003cp\u003e\"[A] magisterial interpretation of the rise and fall of human cultures and societies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Robert Lekachman, Washington Post Book World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Its persuasive arguments asserting the primacy of cultural rather than genetic or psychological factors in human life deserve the widest possible audience.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Gloria Levitas The New Leader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] original and...urgent theory about the nature of man and at the reason that human cultures take so many diverse shapes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lively and controversial.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— I. Bernard Cohen, front page, The New York Times Book Review  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016509898992,"sku":"9780394727004","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780394727004","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}