Cannibals and Kings

by Marvin Harris

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  About the Author

  MARVIN HARRIS has taught at Columbia University since 1953 and from 1963 to 1966 was Chairman of the Department of Anthropology. He has lectured by invitation at most of the major colleges and universities in the United States. In addition to field work in Brazil, Mozambique, and Ecuador on the subjects of cross-cultural aspects of race and ethnic relations, the effects of colonialism, and problems of underdevelopment seen in ecological perspective, Harris has pioneered in the use of videotape techniques in the study of family life in this country.

  Author of several books, among them the influential Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Cu
lture and the popular undergraduate text Culture, Man and Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology, Harris writes regularly for National History magazine and is a frequent contributor to the professional journals, American Anthropologist and Current Anthropology. His other books include Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches and Cultural Materialism.