Marvin Harris Bibliography - Articles and Book Chapters

Articles and Book Chapters

• . (1952), "Race Relations in Minas Velhas, a Community in the Mountain Region of Central Brazil", in Charles Wagley, Race and Class in Rural Brazil, Paris: UNESCO, pp. 47–81, http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0005/000545/054502eb.pdf, retrieved 10 September 2010
• . (1958), "Portugal's African 'Wards' - A First Hand Report on Labor and Education in Mocambique", Africa Today 5 (6): 3–36, JSTOR 4183986
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• 1959
  • "The Economy Has No Surplus?", American Anthropologist 61 (2): 189–199, ., JSTOR 665092
  • "Caste, Class and Minority", Social Forces 37 (3): 248–54, ., JSTOR 2572971
  • "Labor Migration among the Mocambique Thonga: Cultural and Political Factors", Africa 29 (1): 50–64, ., JSTOR 1157499
• 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 (São 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 (1): 51–54 + 55–56, JSTOR 2740230 Full pdf
    "Republished 1992 in", Current Anthropology, Supplement Inquiry and Debate in the Human Sciences: Contributions from Current Anthropology 1960-1990 33 (1): 261–276, JSTOR 2743946
  • "Race, Conflict, and Reform in Mocambique." In The Transformation of East Africa, 157 - 83.
• 1967
  • "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. *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 Unpublished manuscript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 Unpublished manuscript.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
  • "India's Sacred Cow", Human Nature: 28–36, February 1978, http://www.lhup.edu/tbaylor/Adobe%20Docs/Harris_Indias_Sacred_Cow.pdf, retrieved 10 September 2010
    Also published in A.L. Tobias & P.J. Thompson, ed. (1980), Issues in Nutrition for the 1980s: An Ecological Perspective, Monterey, California: Wadsworth
  • "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 (1): 183–201, ., JSTOR 3629698
  • "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 Robert Borofsky, Assessing Cultural Anthropology, New York: McGraw Hill, ISBN 978-0-07-006578-9, http://www.canibaisereis.com/download/mharris/cultural-materialism-mharris.pdf, retrieved 10 September 2010
• 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.