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Cannibals and Kings (1977)
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In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery
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Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.
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It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
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Marvin Harris
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August 18, 1927
Died:
October 25, 2001
(aged 74)
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