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 | | 5. Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches | | | Author: Harris, Marvin Publisher: Random House Inc | | Publish Date: 12/1/1989 Format: Paperback |  | Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches - The Riddles of Culture - Book By: Regis Schilken - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 4/15/2007 11:06 PM | | What may seem like a bizarre belief of another culture stems from an intelligible source. Marvin Harris points out that human life is not merely a panorama of random happenings of divergent cultures. One wonders how this is so when confronted by the belief systems of peoples around the globe, some of which seem to make little or no sense. He shows that “even the most bizarre-seeming beliefs and practices” are a result of ordinary conditions arising from “guts, sex, energy, wind, rain,” and a “host of ordinary phenomena” built from emerging history. read the full review | |
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