The excepcional Marvin Harris

Marvin Harris was an American anthropology. He born on August 18, 1927 and he died on October 25, 2001. He studied in the Columbia University. He worked in the same university and, later, in the University of the Florida. His fieldwork more important is in Mozambique in the 1957.
Marvin Harris is recognized because he was an exponent of the cultural materialism. In your works, he used elements of Marxist theory, for example: superstructure, modes of production and exploitation. As well, he worked with demographic studies conducted Malthus. In this way, he developed a new perspective to see sociocultural evolution, said what the social reality consist of three levels: infrastructure (demographic and productive factors), structure (the set of institutions) and suprastructure (ideologies that explain the reality). These three levels are connected.
I like Marvin Harris because is an anthropology that write very clear; their works has a simple language. I read a part of his book Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture and I really like because it found explanations for social phenomena were very consistent, for example the cows in the Indian are sacred because has a lot roles as animal, for example poop is used as fertilized.