There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to … - Marvin Harris

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The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

Marvin Harris

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.

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I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

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But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

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Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people. ' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior - based on information collected through fieldwork.

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Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

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In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

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