Marvin Harris
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American anthropologist
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Marvin Harris's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology Columbia University
Why Is Marvin Harris Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marvin Harris was an American anthropologist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City. A prolific writer, he was highly influential in the development of cultural materialism and environmental determinism. In his work, he combined Karl Marx's emphasis on the forces of production with Thomas Malthus's insights on the impact of demographic factors on other parts of the sociocultural system.
Marvin Harris's Published Works
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Published Works
- Primitive social organization : an evolutionary perspective (1962) (604)
- History and Significance of the EMIC/ETIC Distinction (1976) (555)
- Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (1974) (410)
- Patterns of race in the Americas (1964) (387)
- Population, Warfare, and the Male Supremacist Complex (1976) (338)
- Cannibals and kings : the origins of cultures (1978) (333)
- Food and evolution : toward a theory of human food habits (1987) (217)
- Comment on Vayda's review of good to eat: Riddles of food and culture (1987) (198)
- The nature of cultural things (1964) (173)
- Cannibals and Kings (1977) (154)
- Referential Ambiguity in the Calculus of Brazilian Racial Identity (1970) (147)
- Addition of uridines to edited RNAs in trypanosome mitochondria occurs independently of transcription. (1990) (144)
- Use of photoaffinity crosslinking and molecular modeling to analyze the global architecture of ribonuclease P RNA. (1994) (138)
- Who are the Whites?: Imposed census categories and the racial demography of Brazil. (1993) (133)
- Comparative photocross‐linking analysis of the tertiary structures of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis RNase P RNAs (1998) (108)
- The Economy Has No Surplus (1959) (108)
- Identification of phosphates involved in catalysis by the ribozyme RNase P RNA. (1995) (95)
- War: the anthropology of armed conflict and aggression (1969) (91)
- Minorities in the New World (1959) (90)
- RNA editing in kinetoplastid mitochondria (1993) (89)
- Evidence that substrate‐specific effects of C5 protein lead to uniformity in binding and catalysis by RNase P (2006) (87)
- Analysis of the tertiary structure of the ribonuclease P ribozyme-substrate complex by site-specific photoaffinity crosslinking. (1997) (81)
- Recognition of the 5' leader of pre-tRNA substrates by the active site of ribonuclease P. (2003) (79)
- Modification of Trypanosoma brucei mitochondrial rRNA by posttranscriptional 3' polyuridine tail formation (1991) (79)
- Culture, Man, and Nature;: An Introduction to General Anthropology (1971) (77)
- Helix P4 is a divalent metal ion binding site in the conserved core of the ribonuclease P ribozyme. (2000) (74)
- Varieties of qualitative research (1982) (74)
- Analysis of solvent nucleophile isotope effects: evidence for concerted mechanisms and nucleophilic activation by metal coordination in nonenzymatic and ribozyme-catalyzed phosphodiester hydrolysis. (2004) (70)
- Food and Evolution (1987) (69)
- Kinetoplastid RNA editing: In vitro formation of cytochrome b gRNA-mRNA chimeras from synthetic substrate RNAs (1992) (67)
- Evidence for direct attack by hydroxide in phosphodiester hydrolysis. (2002) (66)
- The sacred cow and the abominable pig: riddles of food and culture (1987) (64)
- Town and Country in Brazil. (1957) (63)
- Practical Access to 2‐Alkylsuccinates through Asymmetric Catalytic Hydrogenation of Stobbe‐Derived Itaconates (1998) (63)
- Death, Sex, and Fertility: Population Regulation in Preindustrial and Developing Societies. (1987) (59)
- A Typology of Latin American Subcultures (1955) (58)
- Identification of individual nucleotides in the bacterial ribonuclease P ribozyme adjacent to the pre-tRNA cleavage site by short-range photo-cross-linking. (1998) (56)
- Rational design of self-cleaving pre-tRNA-ribonuclease P RNA conjugates. (1994) (55)
- Specific cleavage of pre-edited mRNAs in trypanosome mitochondrial extracts (1992) (55)
- Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going (1989) (55)
- Evidence for a polynuclear metal ion binding site in the catalytic domain of ribonuclease P RNA (2002) (54)
- Recent insights into the structure and function of the ribonucleoprotein enzyme ribonuclease P. (2003) (53)
- The pre-tRNA nucleotide base and 2'-hydroxyl at N(-1) contribute to fidelity in tRNA processing by RNase P. (2005) (52)
- Evidence that binding of C5 protein to P RNA enhances ribozyme catalysis by influencing active site metal ion affinity. (2007) (51)
- Labour Emigration among the Moçambique Thonga: Cultural and Political Factors (1959) (49)
- Evidence for a tyrosine-adenine stacking interaction and for a short-lived open intermediate subsequent to initial binding of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase to promoter DNA. (2009) (49)
- Minorities in the New World: Six Case Studies (1958) (49)
- Analysis of substrate recognition by the ribonucleoprotein endonuclease RNase P. (2002) (48)
- 崩れゆくアメリカ = America now : the anthropology of a changing culture (1981) (47)
- Understanding the transition states of phosphodiester bond cleavage: insights from heavy atom isotope effects. (2004) (47)
- Kinetic isotope effects for RNA cleavage by 2'-O- transphosphorylation: nucleophilic activation by specific base. (2010) (46)
- Conservation of helical structure contributes to functional metal ion interactions in the catalytic domain of ribonuclease P RNA. (2002) (46)
- RNA crosslinking methods. (2009) (46)
- Identification of adenosine functional groups involved in substrate binding by the ribonuclease P ribozyme. (1999) (45)
- Why a Perfect Knowledge of All the Rules One Must Know to Act like a Native Cannot Lead to the Knowledge of How Natives Act (1974) (45)
- The P4 metal binding site in RNase P RNA affects active site metal affinity through substrate positioning. (2006) (44)
- Trypanosoma brucei mitochondrial ribosomal RNA synthesis, processing and developmentally regulated expression. (1992) (44)
- Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures. (1979) (44)
- Protein-precursor tRNA contact leads to sequence-specific recognition of 5' leaders by bacterial ribonuclease P. (2010) (43)
- Death, Sex, and Fertility: Population Regulation in Preindustrial and Developing Societies (1988) (42)
- RNA-dependent folding and stabilization of C5 protein during assembly of the E. coli RNase P holoenzyme. (2006) (41)
- Distinguished Lecture: Anthropology and the Theoretical and Paradigmatic Significance of the Collapse of Soviet and East European Communism (1992) (38)
- The track of the pre-tRNA 5' leader in the ribonuclease P ribozyme-substrate complex. (1999) (37)
- NAIM and site-specific functional group modification analysis of RNase P RNA: magnesium dependent structure within the conserved P1-P4 multihelix junction contributes to catalysis. (2002) (35)
- Encounter: the envelope and the twig. (1978) (34)
- Pre-steady-state and stopped-flow fluorescence analysis of Escherichia coli ribonuclease III: insights into mechanism and conformational changes associated with binding and catalysis. (2002) (34)
- Activation of oxygen nucleophiles in enzyme catalysis. (2006) (32)
- Animal Capture and Yanomamo Warfare: Retrospect and New Evidence (1984) (29)
- Editing domains of Trypanosoma brucei mitochondrial RNAs identified by secondary structure (1995) (28)
- Annual Reviews of Physiology (1945) (28)
- Binding of C5 protein to P RNA enhances the rate constant for catalysis for P RNA processing of pre-tRNAs lacking a consensus (+ 1)/C(+ 72) pair. (2010) (27)
- Profiles in female poverty : a study of five poor working women in Kerala (1983) (25)
- Death, sex, and fertility (1987) (22)
- Use of circular permutation and end modification to position photoaffinity probes for analysis of RNA structure. (1999) (22)
- Why nothing works : the anthropology of daily life (1987) (21)
- Efficient synthesis of [2'-18O]uridine and its incorporation into oligonucleotides: a new tool for mechanistic study of nucleotidyl transfer reactions by isotope effect analysis. (2008) (21)
- Cultural materialism and behavior analysis: Common problems and radical solutions (2007) (21)
- What's in a Name? The Consequences of Violating Brazilian Emic Color-Race Categories in Estimates of Social Well-Being (1995) (20)
- Inaccuracies in selected ion monitoring determination of isotope ratios obviated by profile acquisition: nucleotide 18O/16O measurements. (2007) (19)
- A quantitative Raman spectroscopic signal for metal-phosphodiester interactions in solution. (2010) (17)
- Caste, Class, and Minority (1959) (17)
- DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: ADAPTATION IN BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL SCIENCE* (1960) (15)
- Bovine Sex and Species Ratios in India (1982) (14)
- Portugal's African wards : a first-hand report on labor and education in Moçambique (1960) (14)
- Experimental analyses of the chemical dynamics of ribozyme catalysis. (2008) (12)
- Interferon: clinical application of molecular biology. (1970) (11)
- A Reply to Telles (1995) (10)
- Labour Emigration among the Moçambique Thonga: A Reply to Sr. Rita-Ferreira (1960) (8)
- Structure and Catalytic Function of the Bacterial Ribonuclease P Ribozyme (1998) (7)
- Why Nothing Works (1987) (6)
- Cruz das Almas, a Brazilian Village. (1952) (6)
- The Male Supremacist Complex: Discovery of a Cultural Invention (1978) (6)
- Class, Kinship, and Power in an Ecuadorian Town: The Negroes of San Lorenzo. (1967) (6)
- Minorities in the New World: Six Case Studies. (1959) (5)
- Analysis of the tertiary structure of bacterial RNase P RNA (2004) (5)
- Bovine Sex and Species Ratios in India [and Comments and Reply] (1982) (5)
- Adaptation in biological and cultural science. (1960) (5)
- On the Misuse of Statistics: A Reply to Hirschfeld et al. (1978) (4)
- The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870–1940 (2008) (4)
- Cruz das Almas, a Brazilian Village (1952) (4)
- Group and individual effects in selection (1984) (4)
- A Reply to Rotstein's Note (1961) (4)
- How green the revolution (1972) (4)
- The buccinator window anomaly (1986) (3)
- The paradox of science in the universities. (1968) (3)
- The emperor's clothing store (1974) (3)
- A Century of Controversy: Ethnological Issues from 1860 to 1960. ELMAN SERVICE (1986) (3)
- Heredity versus culture: A debate (1978) (3)
- The Assimilado System in Portuguese Mozambique (1958) (3)
- Challenges in RNase P Substrate Recognition: Considering the Biological Context (2010) (3)
- Margaret and the Giant‐Killer (1983) (2)
- Understanding the Role of Metal Ions in RNA Folding and Function: Lessons from RNase P, a Ribonucleoprotein Enzyme (2009) (2)
- General and Theoretical: Origins of the State: The Anthropology of Political Evolution. Ronald Cohen and Elman R. Service (1980) (2)
- Government Involvement and the Future of Anthropological Field Research (1965) (1)
- HOW OUR SKINS GOT THEIR COLOR (2005) (1)
- Impending Crisis in General Anthropology Division Affects Future of the Association (1987) (1)
- ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Durban: A Study in Racial Ecology. LEO KUPER, HILSTAN WATTS and RONALD DAVIES (1959) (1)
- Reply to Lancaster and Lancaster (1978) (1)
- Ribozymes and RNA Catalysis, edited by David M. Lilly and Fritz Eckstein. 2007. RSC Publishing, Cambridge, UK. ISBN (online): 978-1-84755-798-8, ISBN (print): 978-0-85404-253-1. (2008) (1)
- Catalytic Modes in Natural Ribozymes (2008) (1)
- Mutagenicity of chemicals and drugs. (1971) (1)
- Reply to Sebring (1987) (1)
- Town and Country in Brazil (1959) (1)
- General/Theoretical Anthropology: Animals and People Sharing the World. Andrew N. Rowan, ed (1990) (1)
- Co- and Post-Transcriptional Incorporation of Specific Modifications Including Photoreactive Groups into RNA Molecules (2008) (1)
- Damage to graduate education. (1968) (0)
- Nucleophile Isotope Effects (2006) (0)
- Guilt by association? (2002) (0)
- The Limitations of the Principle of Limited Possibilities1 (1966) (0)
- Book reviews (1996) (0)
- OTHER: Constructing Social Theories. Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1969) (0)
- Cultural anthropology / Marvin Harris (1991) (0)
- Race Relations Research : Auspices and Results in the United States (1962) (0)
- The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940:The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940. (1992) (0)
- Probing RNA Structure by Photoaffinity Crosslinking with 4-Thiouridine and 6-Thioguanosine (2008) (0)
- Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances in the Old World. Frederick J. Simoons (1963) (0)
- THE 100,000‐YEAR HUNT (1986) (0)
- 5. Population Regulation and the Development Process (1987) (0)
- 2. Population Regulation and Agricultural Modes of Production (1987) (0)
- Table of Contents (1994) (0)
- General and Theoretical: Culture and Poverty: Critique and Counter‐Proposals. CHARLES A. VALENTINE (1971) (0)
- Descriptions of the Reading History Sideways Method ( the Comparative (2007) (0)
- Essentials of Syphilology (1945) (0)
- Practical Access to 2‐Alkylsuccinates Through Asymmetric Catalytic Hydrogenation of Stobbe‐Derived Itaconates. (1998) (0)
- Violence And The University In Anthropological Perspective (1968) (0)
- Reply to Paul J. Magnarella (1982) (0)
- Activation of Oxygen Nucleophiles in Enzyme Catalysis (2006) (0)
- Outline of Roentgen Diagnosis (1945) (0)
- Ethnomania: Racial and Ethnic Misadventures in Post‐Modern Times (1996) (0)
- Book reviews (1994) (0)
- How People Live Elsewhere (1956) (0)
- Class, Kinship, and Power in an Ecuadorian Town: The Negroes of San Lorenzo. By Norman E. Whitten, Jr. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1965. 238 pp. Figures and maps. $6.75 (1967) (0)
- ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: A Profile of Primitive Culture. Elman R. Service (1958) (0)
- Fairness and the Adversarial Paradigm: An Australian Perspective (1996) (0)
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