Marvin Harris bibliography

This is a two-part chronological list of the works of anthropologist Marvin Harris. The first list contains his scholarly articles; the second contains his books.

Articles and book chapters

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 * 1959
 * 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
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 * "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 Unpublished manuscript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 Unpublished manuscript.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
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 * "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
 * "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
 * 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.
 * "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
 * 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.
 * "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.

Books

 * 1964 Patterns of Race in the Americas ISBN 0-313-22359-9 (adapted from material delivered on the Columbia Lectures in International Studies television series )
 * 1964 The Nature of Cultural Things. Studies in Anthropology Series AS5. Random House Paperback. Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 63-19713
 * 1969 Town and Country in Brazil ISBN 0-404-50587-2
 * 1971 Culture, Man, and Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology (1st Edition)
 * 1974 Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture ISBN 0-679-72468-0
 * 1977 Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures ISBN 0-679-72849-X
 * 1981 America Now: Why Nothing Works (Re-printed in 1987 as Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life) ISBN 0-671-63577-8
 * 1985 Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture (Re-printed in 1987 as The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture; re-printed in 1998 as Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture) ISBN 1-57766-015-3
 * 1987 Death, Sex, and Fertility: Population Regulation in Preindustrial and Developing Societies ISBN 0-231-06270-2
 * 1987 Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits (editor) ISBN 0-87722-668-7
 * 1990 Emics and Etics : The Insider/Outsider Debate (editor) ISBN 0-8039-3738-5
 * 1990 Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going ISBN 0-06-091990-6
 * 1997 Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology (7th Edition) ISBN 0-673-99093-1
 * 1999 Paperback ISBN 0-7619-9021-6
 * 1968 and 2001 Paperback ISBN 0-7591-0133-7
 * 1979 and 2001 Paperback ISBN 0-7591-0135-3
 * 2007 Cultural Anthropology (7th Edition) ISBN 0-205-45443-7