Cultural Materialism : The Struggle for a Science of Culture

Introduction to the Updated Edition vi Allen Johnson Orna Johnson Preface xv Acknowledgments xix About the Author xx Part I: Cultural Materialism as a Research Strategy Introduction to Part I 3(2) Research Strategies and the Structure of Science 5(24) The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism 29(17) Theoretical Principles of Cultural Materialism 46(31) The Scope of Cultural Materialist Theories 77(42) Part II: The Alternatives Introduction to Part II 117(2) Sociobiology and Biological Reductionism 119(22) Dialectical Materialism 141(24) Structuralism 165(51) Structural Marxism 216(42) Psychological and Cognitive Idealism 258(29) Eclecticism 287(28) Obscurantism 315(28) Bibliography 343(28) Index 371