Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures
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Quotes by Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures
"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."
"In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery"