Cultural materialism the struggle for a science of culture - Harris, Marvin 1927-2001 (Walnut Creek, CA AltaMira Press, 2001)
Pt. I Cultural materialism as a research strategy -- 1. Research strategies and the structure of science -- 2. The epistemology of cultural materialism -- 3. Theoretical principles of cultural materialism -- 4. The scope of cultural materialist theories -- Pt. II The Alternatives -- 5. Sociobiology and biological reductionism -- 6. Dialectical materialism -- 7. Structuralism -- 8. Structural Marxism -- 9. Psychological and cognitive idealism -- 10. Eclecticism -- 11. Obscurantism.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-370) and index.
Keywords: Ethnology -- Philosophy; Culture; Marxist anthropology; Social evolution