Leslie White was one of the most important and controversial figures in American anthropology. This classic work, initially published in 1949, contains White's

Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows

Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris h

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This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across E