Cannibals and Kings

Cannibals and Kings (1977, ISBN 0-394-40765-2) is a book written by anthropologist Marvin Harris. The book presents a systematic discussion of ideas about the reasons for a culture making a transition by stages from egalitarian hunter-gatherer to hierarchically based states as population density increases.

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