Marvin Harris Quotes

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

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