Anthropologists who explain cultural differences by technology, environment, population and the organization of production, from theories of cultural evolution through cultural ecology and cultural materialism to Marxist anthropology and the study of peasants. A theorist belongs here when the cited article ties the person to ecological anthropology, cultural evolution, cultural materialism or Marxist perspectives. It excludes the symbolic anthropologists, who read culture as meaning rather than adaptation.
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Roy Rappaport (Wikipedia)
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Roy Abraham Rappaport (25 March 1926-9 October 1997) was an American anthropologist known for his contributions to the anthropological study of ritual and to ecological anthropology.
Leslie White (Wikipedia)
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He argued that it was the technological component which plays a primary role or is the primary determining factor responsible for the cultural evolution.
Wikipedia: Marvin Harris
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After the publication of The Rise of Anthropological Theory in 1968, Harris helped focus the interest of anthropologists in cultural-ecological relationships for the rest of his career.
Eric Wolf (Wikipedia)
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Eric Robert Wolf (February 1, 1923 - March 6, 1999) was an anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxist perspectives within anthropology.
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