Lawrence A Kuznar: 3 books
by Lawrence A. Kuznar, Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
This second edition of Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology arrives at just the right time, as new advances in science increasingly affect anthropologists of all stripes. Lawrence Kuznar begins by reviewing the basic issues of scientific epistemology in anthropology as they have taken shape over the...
Studying Societies and Cultures
Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
"A thought-provoking, stimulating volume on the past, present and future of cultural materialism that is both laudatory of Harris' research strategy and critical of it." Paul Shankman, University of Colorado One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential...
World-Systems Theory in Practice
Leadership, Production, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1998
In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric...