Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential starting point for explaining the science of culture to students. Now available...(展开全部)

The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought

The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought

Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential starting point for explaining the science of culture to students. Now available...(展开全部)

马文·哈里斯（Marvin Harris，1927.8.17~2001.10.25），生于纽约市布鲁克林。美国人类学家，对文化唯物主义和环境决定论的发展具有很大影响，是美国文化唯物论的倡导者和主要代表。1953年获哥伦比亚大学哲学博士学位，长期在哥伦比亚大学执教人类学并曾任哥伦比亚大学人类学系主，1981 年加入佛罗里达大学人类学系，并于 2000 年退休。他的研究涵盖种族、进化和文化等主题。主要着作有《人类学理论的兴起》（1968）、《文化唯物主义》（1979）、《文化人类学》（1983）等。

The word 'materialism' is ambiguous: it designates a moral doc trine as well as a philosophy and, indeed, an entire world view. Moral materialism is identical with hedonism, or the doctrine that humans should pursue only their own pleasure. Philosophical ma terialismis the view that the real worId is composed exclusively of material things. The two doctrines are logically indep...(展开全部)

The word 'materialism' is ambiguous: it designates a moral doc trine as well as a philosophy and, indeed, an entire world view. Moral materialism is identical with hedonism, or the doctrine that humans should pursue only their own pleasure. Philosophical ma terialismis the view that the real worId is composed exclusively of material things. The two doctrines are logically indep...(展开全部)

马文·哈里斯（Marvin Harris，1927.8.17~2001.10.25），生于纽约市布鲁克林。美国人类学家，对文化唯物主义和环境决定论的发展具有很大影响，是美国文化唯物论的倡导者和主要代表。1953年获哥伦比亚大学哲学博士学位，长期在哥伦比亚大学执教人类学并曾任哥伦比亚大学人类学系主，1981 年加入佛罗里达大学人类学系，并于 2000 年退休。他的研究涵盖种族、进化和文化等主题。主要着作有《人类学理论的兴起》（1968）、《文化唯物主义》（1979）、《文化人类学》（1983）等。

In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights a common pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism . The universal human tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the impulse to develop and refine the ego when the ego is, by nature, essential...(展开全部)

In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights a common pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism . The universal human tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the impulse to develop and refine the ego when the ego is, by nature, essential...(展开全部)