[Inhoudsopgave]: Introduction to the Updated EditionviAllen JohnsonOrna JohnsonPrefacexvAcknowledgmentsxixAbout the AuthorxxPart I: Cultural Materialism as a Research StrategyIntroduction to Part I3(2)Research Strategies and the Structure of Science5(24)The Epistemology of Cultural Materialism29(17)Theoretical Principles of Cultural Materialism46(31)The Scope of Cultural Materialist Theories77(42)Part II: The AlternativesIntroduction to Part II117(2)Sociobiology and Biological Reductionism119(22)Dialectical Materialism141(24)Structuralism165(51)Structural Marxism216(42)Psychological and Cognitive Idealism258(29)Eclecticism287(28)Obscurantism315(28)Bibliography343(28)Index371