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Name:	Marvin Harris
Birth Date:	August 18, 1927
Place of Birth:	Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nationality:	American
Gender:	Male
Occupations:	anthropologist, College teacher

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Marvin Harris was born August 18, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York. He was the primary force behind the development of the theoretical perspective cultural materialism. Harris was trained as an anthropologist, completing his Ph.D. at Columbia University...

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Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Counter-culture's glad tidings of revolution by consciousness are neither new nor revolutionary. Christianity has been trying to...

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Marvin Harris (August 18, 1927 – October 25, 2001) was an American anthropologist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. A prolific writer, he was highly influential in the development of cultural materialism. In his work he combined Karl Marx's...

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Marvin Harris

About 7 pages (2,064 words) in 3 products