Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going

by Marvin Harris · 1989

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Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny.

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long · 547 pages

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