A cross-cultural analysis of the relationship between subsistence productivity and religious eschatology using data from the Human Relations Area Files : a test of a hypothesis drawn from the Marvin Harris' theory of Cultural Materialism /

This thesis used a cross-cultural sample of ethnographic data collected from the Human Relations Area Files to test the hypothesis, drawn from Marvin Harris' theory of Cultural Materialism, that the presence of a judgmental eschatology (or fate of the soul after death) in a given society is pos...

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Main Author:	Olson, Jeffery Soland
Format:	Thesis eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 2000.
Subjects:	Major anthropology.
Online Access:	Link to OAKTrust copy