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"Studying societies and cultures" Table Of Contents:

• 1- The impact of cultural materialism : a bibliometric analysis of the writings of Marvin Harris / Pamela Effrein Sandstrom and Howard D. White
• 2- The theoretical legacies of cultural materialism and Marvin Harris / James Lett
• 3- Cultural materialism, scientific anthropology, epistemology, and "narrative ethnographies of the particular" / H. Sidky
• 4- Cultural materialism, rational choice, and the problem of general ethnography : Marvin Harris and the struggle for science in anthropology / Alan R. Sandstrom
• 5- Materialist particularity in nuclear micronesia : a pre-postmodernist theory of cultural evolution / James G. Peoples
• 6- Linking past and present : cultural materialism, archaeology, and the medieval transition in the Aegean / P. Nick Kardulias
• 7- Effects of the physical and social environment on culture : results of cross-cultural tests / Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember
• 8- The effect of nepotism on the evolution of social inequality / Lawrence A. Kuznar, William G. Frederick, and Robert L. Sedlmeyer
• 9- Coevolutionary materialism / James W. Dow
• 10- Marvin Harris, meet Charles Darwin : a critical evaluation and theoretical extension of cultural materialism / Stephen K. Sanderson
• 11- What role does population pressure play in the evolutionary dynamics of Marvin Harris? / Robert L. Carneiro
• 12- Evolutionary materialism and Darwinian conflict theory : a critical analysis of Stephen Sanderson's extensions of cultural materialism / David P. Kennedy
• 13- When is a theoretical strategy not cultural materialism? : comments on Kennedy's critique of evolutionary materialism and Darwinian conflict theory / Stephen K. Sanderson.

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