Cannibals and Kings (35 page)

1966  
Peasants
. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-HalL

1975  “New Evidence for the Late Introduction of Malaria into the New World.” Current Anthropology 16:93–104.

1972  “Water Control Systems of the Tehuacan Valley.” In R. MacNeish (ed.), pp. 81–153.

1965  
A Study of War
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1971  
The Khanna Study: Population Problems in the Rural Punjab
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

1952  
Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religions and Early Judaism
. New York: Scribners.

1972  “Population Densities and Early Mesopotamian Origins.” In Ucko, Dimbleby, and Tringham (eds.).

1963  
A History of Domesticated Animals
. New York: Harper & Row.

1973  “Domestication of Pulses in the Old World.” Science 182:887–94.

M
ARVIN
H
ARRIS
has taught at Columbia University since 1953 and from 1963 to 1966 was Chairman of the Department of Anthropology. He has lectured by invitation at most of the major colleges and universities in the United States. In addition to field work in Brazil, Mozambique, and Ecuador on the subjects of cross-cultural aspects of race and ethnic relations, the effects of colonialism, and problems of underdevelopment seen in ecological perspective, Harris has pioneered in the use of videotape techniques in the study of family life in this country.

Author of several books, among them the influential
Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture
and the popular undergraduate text
Culture, Man and Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology
, Harris writes regularly for
National History
magazine and is a frequent contributor to the professional journals,
American Anthropologist
and
Current Anthropology
. His other books include
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
and
Cultural Materialism
.