by Marvin Harris · Salvat · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434583733
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«Caníbales y reyes: los orígenes de la cultura» is the anthropology essay by Marvin Harris, published by Salvat in paperback (274 pages, in Spanish).
Marvin Harris interprets cultural customs as adaptations to ecological conditions, like Darwin's biological forms. He analyzes female infanticide, low milk consumption in China, Aztec cannibalism and the prosperity of Stone Age hunters to show that each society adapts to its environment.
The 1985 edition belongs to the Biblioteca Científica Salvat collection. The English original was published in 1977 as Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures.
For readers interested in cultural anthropology, history of societies and evolution of civilizations.
Marvin Harris was an American anthropologist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City. A prolific writer, he was highly influential in the development of cultural materialism. In his work, he combined Karl Marx's emphasis on the forces of production with Thomas Malthus's insights on the impact of demographic factors on other parts of the sociocultural system.
