List of Marvin Harris works

This is a two-part chronological list of the works of anthropologist Marvin Harris. The first list contains his scholarly articles; the second contains his books.__TOC__Articles
*1952 - "Race Relations in Minas Velhas, a Community in the Mountain Region of Central Brazil." In Race and Class in Rural Brazil, edited by Charles Wagley, 47 - 81. Paris: UNESCO.
*1959
** "The Economy Has No Surplus?" American Anthropologist 61: 189-199
** "Caste, Class and Minority." Social Forces 37:248-54
** "Labor Migration among the Mocambique Thonga: Cultural and Political Factors." Africa 29:50-64
*1962 - "Race Relations Research and Research Auspices in the United States." Information 1:28-51.
*1963 - "The Structural Significance of Brazilian Racial Categories" (with Conrad Kottak) Sociologia 25: 203-208 (Sao Paulo)
*1964 - "Racial Identity in Brazil." Luso-Brazilian Review 1:21-28.
*1965 - "The Myth of the Sacred Cow." In Man, Culture and Animals, 217-28. Washington D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
*1966
** "The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle." Current Anthropology 7: 51-59.
** "Race, Conflict, and Reform in Mocambique." In The Transformation of East Africa, 157 - 83.
*1967
** tuftuftyu"The Classification of Stratified Groups." In Social Structure, Stratification, and Mobility, 298 - 324. Washington, D.C.: Pan-American Union.
** "The Myth of the Sacred Cow." Natural History (March):6-12.
*1968
** "Big Bust on Morningside Heights." The Nation June 10, 1968 757-763. * [http://www.publicanthropology.org/TimesPast/Harris.htm Big Bust on Morningside Heights]
** "Race." in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 13:263-69.
** "Report on N.S.F. Grant G.S. 1128, Techniques of Behavioral Analysis." Unpublished manuscript
*1969 - "Patterns of Authority and Superordination in Lower Class Urban Domiciles." Research proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation. Unpublished manuscript.
*1970 - "Referential Ambiguity in the Calculus of Brazilian Racial Identity." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 26:1-14.
*1971 - "Comments on Alan Heston's 'An Approach to the Sacred Cow of India." Current Anthropology 12: 199-201
*1972 - "Portugal's Contribution to the Underdevelopment of Africa and Brazil." In Ronald Chilcote, ed., Protest and Resistance in Angola and Brazil Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 209-223
*1974 - "Reply to Corry Azzi." Current Anthropology 15: 323.
*1975 - "Why a Perfect Knowledge of All the Rules That One Must Know in Order to Act Like a Native Cannot Lead to a Knowledge of How Natives Act." Journal of Anthropological Research 30: 242-251
*1976 - "Levi-Strauss et La Palourde." L'Homme 16: 5 - 22.
*1976 - "History and Significance of the Emic/Etic Distinction." Annual Review of Anthropology 5:329-50.
*1977 - "Why Men Dominate Women" New York Times Magazine, date:( )
*1977 - "Bovine Sex and Species Ratios in India." Paper read at American Anthropological Association meetings in Houston
*1978 - "Origins of the U.S. Preference for Beef." Psychology Today, October: 88-94.
*1979
** "The Human Strategy: Our Pound of Flesh." Natural History 88:30-41.
** "Reply to Sahlins." New York Review of Books.
* 1980 - "History and Ideological Significance of the Separation of Social and Cultural Anthropology." In Beyond the Myths of Culture: Essays in Cultural Materialism, edited by Eric Ross, 391-407. New York: Academic Press
*1982 - "Mother Cow" Anthropology 81/82, Annual Editions
*1984
** "Animal Capture and Yanomomo Warfare: Retrospective and New Evidence." Journal of Anthropological Research 40:183-201
** "A Cultural Materialist Theory of Band and Village Warfare: The Yanomamo Test." In Warfare, Culture, and Environment, edited by R. Brian Ferguson, 111-40. Orlando: Academic Press
*1987 - "Cultural Materialism: Alarums and Excursions." In Waymarks: The Notre Dame Inaugural lectures in Anthropology
*1990 - "Emics and Etics Revisited; Harris's Reply to Pike; Harris's Final Response." In Emics and Etics: The Insider/Outsider Debate, edited by Thomas N. Headland, Kenneth L. Pike, and Marvin Harris, 48-61, 75-83, 202-16. Newbury Park: Sage.
*1991 - "Anthropology: Ships that Crash in the Night." In Perspectives on Social Science: The Colorado Lectures, edited by Richard Jessor, 70-114. Boulder, CO: Westview.
*1992 - "Distinguished Lecture: Anthropology and the Theoretical and Paradigmatic Significance of the Collapse of the Soviet and European Communism." American Anthropologist 94:295-305.
*1993
** "Who are the Whites?" Social Forces 72: 451-62.
** "The Evolution of Gender Hierarchies: a Trial Formulation." in Sex and Gender Hierarchies, edited by Barbara Diane Miller
* 1994 - "Cultural Materialism is Alive and Well and Won't Go Away Until Something Better Comes Along. In Assessing Cultural Anthropology, edited by Robert Borofsky. New York: McGraw Hill.
* 1995
** "Commentary on articles by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Roy D'Andrade. Current Anthropology 36: 423-24.
** "Anthropology and Postmodernism" in Science, Materialism, and the Study of Culture (which is dedicated to Harris) edited by Martin F. Murphy and Maxine L. Margolis.

Books

*"The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture" ISBN 0-7591-0133-7
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*"Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture" (Original title "The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig") ISBN 1-57766-015-3
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*"Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going" ISBN 0-06-091990-6
*"Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times" (AltaMira Press, 1999) ISBN 0-7619-9021-6
*"Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life" (Original title "America Now: the Anthropology of a Changing Culture") ISBN 0-671-63577-8
*"Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture" ISBN 0-7591-0135-3
*"Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology" (7th Edition) ISBN 0-673-99093-1
*"Cultural Anthropology" (7th Edition) ISBN 0-205-45443-7
*"Patterns of Race in the Americas" ISBN 0-313-22359-9
*"Death, Sex, and Fertility: Population Regulation in Preindustrial and Developing Societies" ISBN 0-231-06270-2
*"Town and Country in Brazil" ISBN 0-404-50587-2
*"The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle"
* [http://www.users.voicenet.com/~nancymc/portugalsafricanwards.pdf "Portugal's African Wards: A first-hand report on labor and education in Mozambique"]
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*"Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits" (editor) ISBN 0-87722-668-7