Works Cited
Harris left a large body of scholarly work. See List of Marvin Harris works for a complete list.
Writings for the general public include:
- Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture.. London: Hutchinson & Co.. 1975. ISBN 0-09-122750-X. Reissued in 1991 by Vintage, New York.
- Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures.. New York: Vintage.. 1977. ISBN 0-394-40765-2.
- Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life.. New York: Simon & Schuster.. 1981. ISBN 0-671-63577-8. (Previously titled America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture)
- Our Kind: who we are, where we came from, where we are going.. New York: HarperCollins/Harper Perennial.. 1990. ISBN 0-06-091990-6.
- Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture.. Illinois: Waveland Press.. 1998. ISBN 1-57766-015-3. (Previously published 1985 by Simon & Schuster. Previously titled The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig)
More academically oriented works include
- Harris, Marvin, & Ross, Eric B., ed. (1987). Food and Evolution: Towards a Theory of Human Food Habits. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 0-87722-668-7.
- . (2001. First published 1979), Cultural Materialism: the Struggle for a Science of Culture (Updated ed.), Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, ISBN 0-7591-0134-5, http://books.google.com/books?id=8Xc9DMbB5KQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22materialism%22#v=onepage&q&f=false, retrieved 10 September2010 Paperback ISBN 0-7591-0135-3
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