Books by Marvin Harris available for free

Pinkerite is a big fan of the cultural materialism promoted by anthropologist Marvin Harris. And I want to point out that most or all of his work is available for free on the Internet Archive.

I own most of these, but it's handy to have them in digital form - much easier to search on key words.

• America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture
• Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: the Riddles of Culture
• Cultural Materialism : the Struggle for a Science of Culture  (personal favorite)
• Culture, People and Nature: an Introduction to General Anthropology
• Minorities in the New World: Six Case Studies - with Charles Wagley
• The Nature of Cultural Things
• The Rise of Anthropological Theory; a History of Theories of Culture (considered by many to be his most significant work)
• The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture
• Also published as Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture
• Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
• Town and Country in Brazil

"Cannibals and Kings," while shown in the Archive, is not available to borrow for free except for those with print disabilities. However, it is available for free here.

BONUS

Also available on the Internet Archive - from the Pacifica Radio archive, Harris is interviewed about the 1968 Columbia protests - The Columbia University Strike. Harris was roughed up by the cops.

Harris wrote an account of the strike for the Nation magazine, Big Bust on Morningside Heights.

Peter Thiel vs. the Catholic Church

 Peter Thiel's whacked-out antichrist babbling has gotten the attention of the Catholic Church:

This week, Mr. Thiel arrived in Rome to deliver four lectures on the Antichrist. The series, which began on Sunday, is exploring how “occult forces are ceaselessly at work, intent on destroying what remains of the West,” according to the conservative Christian group hosting him. 

 

In response, Catholics have decried Mr. Thiel’s vision in several articles over the past week. One was titled: “American heresy: Should we burn Peter Thiel?” 

 

Mr. Thiel held similar lectures in San Francisco last year and in Paris in January, prompting relatively little reaction from Christian thinkers. But proximity to the Vatican appears to have prompted some Roman Catholic commentators to issue a more sustained response. In the “American heresy” essay, the Rev. Paolo Benanti, an adviser to the Vatican on A.I., described Mr. Thiel’s vision as “disturbing.”

I mean, I can't stand the Catholic Church either, with its long tradition of hating women's sexuality and trying to control women's bodies, but it is probably still wealthier than Peter Thiel and so one of the few forces capable of shutting down his nutty antichrist babblings.

I wonder if Thiel still funds Quillette.

Is Nellie Bowles the worst writer in America?

The answer will not surprise you.

More at Defector:

It is not difficult to find praise for Nellie Bowles, who writes a weekly column for The Free Press, a website owned by her wife, Bari Weiss. "If you don’t read ⁦Nellie Bowles every Friday, you are leading a sad, barren, and empty existence," says Free Press columnist Niall Ferguson. Conservative writer Caitlin Flanagan says that Bowles's columns "have the exact spirit of the 70's writers whom I adored and who were so damn funny—and also deeply in the know. "

A couple of years ago her book was being trashed by enjoyers of good literature.

I will add that Bowles is also a terrible person, cheering on the stochastic terrorist Libs of TikTok versus a lesbian bar. It's what you expect for someone who is a courtier of wealthy fascists. And because she and her regime censor wife control so much media, there will always be toadies lower on the food chain to praise Bowles.

GREAT SPEECH BY OBAMA

 This is the best part.

Given at Jesse Jackson's memorial service.