Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so importan…

- 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 co…

- Marvin Harris

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

- Marvin Harris

I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they …

- Marvin Harris

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

- Marvin Harris

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

- Marvin Harris

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultur…

- Marvin Harris

Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thou…

- Marvin Harris

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

- Marvin Harris