Delicious: The Mystery of Food and Culture

Author: American
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Publication Date: 2001-07-01
Features: Marvin Harris is a renowned anthropologist of the modern era. He has published over twenty monographs, including Cultural Materialism and The Origins of Culture, both of which had Chinese translations in the 1980s. His writing style is distinctive, with insightful perspectives, broad vision, depth yet accessibility, eloquence yet thoroughness. The research approach of Marvin Harris represents a cutting-edge direction in academic development—exploring the intersection of natural and social sciences to unravel the mysteries of humans and culture by leveraging resources from various disciplines. This book is an excellent example of such a method.