cultural materialism

Cultural materialism differs from the others by the insertion of culture as the effect.

A prolific writer, he was highly influential in the development of cultural materialism.

Harris subsequently developed a defense of the paradigm in his 1979 book Cultural Materialism.

They have identified four defining characteristics of cultural materialism as a theoretical device:

Cultural materialism is a scientific research strategy and as such utilizes the scientific method.

Hammond (1986) has studied Pope's work from the perspectives of cultural materialism and new historicism.

Margolis's work is strongly informed by Harris's anthropological research strategy, known as cultural materialism.

Elman Service's work is fundamental to cultural materialism, the predominant paradigm in modern anthropology.

Harris applies cultural materialism, looking for economical or ecological explanations behind the taboos.

Cultural materialism makes analysis based in critical theory, in the tradition of the Frankfurt School.

The first of which, was when Marvin Harris actively and systematically worked to develop "cultural materialism" as an approach to research.

Marxist views strongly influenced individuals' comprehension and conclusions about society, among others the anthropological school of cultural materialism.

While Marvin Harris' cultural materialism observed and gauged social units by means of material production.

In response to this cultural materialism makes a distinction between behavioral events and ideas, values, and other mental events.

Cultural Materialism: the Struggle for a Science of Culture.

His special interests are thematic symbolic anthropology, cultural materialism, vernacular architecture, and social change among ethnic minorities.

To Harris, cultural materialism "is based on the simple premise that human social life is a response to the practical problems of earthly existence".

Cultural materialism was therefore best understood, not as culturalist, but rather as positively 'post-culturalist'.

Cultural materialism refers to two separate scholarly endeavours:

British critic Graham Holderness defines cultural materialism as a "politicized form of historiography".

Cultural materialism, being a "processually holistic and globally comparative scientific research strategy" must depend for accuracy on all four types of data.

Cultural Materialism (often contrasted with)

Dr. Harris, who called his approach "cultural materialism," was an anthropology professor at Columbia University from 1953 until 1980, including three years as department chairman.

Within this division of culture, cultural materialism argues for what is referred to as the principle of probabilistic infrastructural determinism.

Cultural materialism (anthropology)