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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

by Marvin Harris

3.5

1974 Β· 276 pages

About Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

This book challenges those who argue that we can change the world by changing the way people think. The author shows that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from concrete social and economic conditions. It is by isolating and identifying these conditions that we will be able to understand and cope with some of our own apparently senseless life styles. In a devastating attack on the shamans of the counterculture, the author states the case for a return to objective consciousness and a rational set of political commitments.

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