{"product_id":"9780679728498","title":"Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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":47024734404848,"sku":"9780679728498","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679728498_p0.jpg?v=1763607679","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679728498","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}