Answer Quote by Marvin Harris

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of…

— Marvin Harris

I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of…

— Marvin Harris

Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior…

— Marvin Harris

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is…

— Marvin Harris

Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we…

— Marvin Harris

“The availability of domesticated animal species played an important role in the prohibition of cannibalism and the development of religions of love and mercy…

— Marvin Harris

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

— Marvin Harris

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to…

— Marvin Harris

The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production…

— Marvin Harris

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming…

— Marvin Harris

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

— Marvin Harris

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the…

— Marvin Harris