Marvin Harristaught at Columbia University from 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 ethinic relations, the effects of colonialism,
and problems of underdevelopment seen in ecological perspective,
Harris 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
popoular undergraduate text Culture, Man and Nature- An
Introduction to General Anthropology,Harris wrote frequently for
Natural History magazine and was a frequent contributor to the
professional journals, American Anthropologistand Current
Anthropology. His others books inlcue Cannibals and Kingsand
Cultural Materialism.
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