The birth of cultural materialism? A debate between Marvin Harris and António Rita-Ferreira

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Autor(a) principal: Macagno,Lorenzo
Data de Publicação: 2016
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Vibrant
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412016000100001
Resumo: Abstract This article addresses a specific phase in the career of Marvin Harris, the founder of cultural materialism: his fieldwork in Mozambique. In particular, it examines the debate on the migration of the "indígenas" of Mozambique to the mines of South Africa, in which he engaged with António Rita-Ferreira, a colonial civil servant and amateur anthropologist (or "self-made scholar", as he liked to represent himself). The article analyses that debate from two related perspectives: a disciplinary or anthropological perspective, and an historical-political one, marked by the movement of decolonisation in the second half of the 1950s
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title The birth of cultural materialism? A debate between Marvin Harris and António Rita-Ferreira
spellingShingle The birth of cultural materialism? A debate between Marvin Harris and António Rita-Ferreira
Macagno,Lorenzo
cultural materialism
Marvin Harris
Mozambique
António Rita-Ferreira
Portuguese colonialism
title_short The birth of cultural materialism? A debate between Marvin Harris and António Rita-Ferreira
title_full The birth of cultural materialism? A debate between Marvin Harris and António Rita-Ferreira
title_fullStr The birth of cultural materialism? A debate between Marvin Harris and António Rita-Ferreira
title_full_unstemmed The birth of cultural materialism? A debate between Marvin Harris and António Rita-Ferreira
title_sort The birth of cultural materialism? A debate between Marvin Harris and António Rita-Ferreira
author Macagno,Lorenzo
author_facet Macagno,Lorenzo
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Macagno,Lorenzo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv cultural materialism
Marvin Harris
Mozambique
António Rita-Ferreira
Portuguese colonialism
topic cultural materialism
Marvin Harris
Mozambique
António Rita-Ferreira
Portuguese colonialism
description Abstract This article addresses a specific phase in the career of Marvin Harris, the founder of cultural materialism: his fieldwork in Mozambique. In particular, it examines the debate on the migration of the "indígenas" of Mozambique to the mines of South Africa, in which he engaged with António Rita-Ferreira, a colonial civil servant and amateur anthropologist (or "self-made scholar", as he liked to represent himself). The article analyses that debate from two related perspectives: a disciplinary or anthropological perspective, and an historical-political one, marked by the movement of decolonisation in the second half of the 1950s
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