Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0679724680
- ISBN 13
- 9780679724681
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About This Item
Vintage, 1989. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 1989 recent printing Baker Academic softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches? Marvin Harris answers these and other perplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from identifiable and intelligble sources.
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 252
- Title
- Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
- Author
- Marvin Harris
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679724680
- ISBN 13
- 9780679724681
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Evolution, Cultural Anthropology, Customs & Traditional Social Sciences, Economic Conditions, Human Behavior, Psychology, Behavior, Culture, Sociology,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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