Quotes by Marvin Harris

Marvin Harris

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.

Revolution

Sugar

Technique

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.

Mean

People

Portraits

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it’s a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

Done

Trying

World

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

Different

People

Sex

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Attitude

Pigs

Years

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.

Meat Eating

Vegetarianism

Victory

I don’t know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn’t follow this particular religion.

Population

Religious

Results

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

Controversial

Offensive

Writing

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

Slavery

Way

World

Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate’s nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.

Males

Men

Years

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Children

Commandments

Controversial

Danger

Different

Dirty

Doe

Done

Followers

Giving

Growing Up

Healthy

Hungry

Important

Issues

Males

Mean

Meat Eating

Men

Mother

Needs

Offensive

People

Pigs

Population

Portraits

Principles

Religious

Results

Revolution

Sex

Slavery

Sugar

Technique

Too Much

Trying

Use

Vegetarianism

Victory

Way

World

World Religions

Writing

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Quotes by Marvin Harris

Marvin Harris

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.

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.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it’s a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

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.

I don’t know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn’t follow this particular religion.

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

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

Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate’s nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.

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