Materialism: Evolutionary, Functionalist, Ecological, and Marxist

While Marvin Harris‘ contributions to anthropology are widely respected, they do not represent the only views within that field. It has been said that “Other anthropologists and observers had almost as many opinions about Dr. Harris as he had about why people behave as they do.  A prolific writer, he was highly influential in the development [...]

Neomaterialism – Evolutionary, Functionalist, Ecological, Marxist

Neomaterialism Steward and White from the previous section laid the foundations of Ecological Anthropology materialistic cultural analysis,  but it wasn’t until the next generation of Anthropologists that these fields underwent true development. As with all things, the course of the good ship Anthropology was sent in the same direction as the concomitant winds of scientific thought, [...]

Materialism: Evolutionary, Functionalist and Ecological

How is Marx present in the “Materialism: Evolutionary, Functionalist and Ecological Traditions? -Morton Fried, On the Evolution of Social Stratification and the State (1960) -Marvin Harris, The Cultural Ecology of India’s Sacred Cattle (1966) -Philippe Bourgois, “From Jibaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the Restructuring of Capitalism in El Barrio” (1995)