{"id":39,"date":"2019-12-04T21:27:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T01:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/?p=39"},"modified":"2019-12-09T00:46:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T04:46:35","slug":"brief-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/2019\/12\/04\/brief-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81RnGux2EbL.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for cannibals and kings\" width=\"189\" height=\"296\" \/>Welcome to my website! As I hope you can tell, it is dedicated to the book <em>Cannibals and Kings<\/em> by Marvin Harris. Feel free to navigate the site at your leisure; there is a drop down menu for chapter summaries, a miniature biography of the author, my personal review of the book, rabbit holes I fell into while reading, and related quizzes I curated. Thank you for visiting!<\/p>\n<p><em>Cannibals and Kings<\/em> was published in 1977 by Marvin Harris. Harris details the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture with a focus on how population size and dynamics affects food sources. It is a nonfiction anthropology book that is meant for an audience that already has a decent grasp on the subject matter. The book has very dense material and requires a lot of time and energy to comprehend. The author has a particular interest in philosophy and weaves deterministic themes throughout the text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my website! As I hope you can tell, it is dedicated to the book Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris. Feel free to navigate the site at your leisure; there is a drop down menu for chapter summaries, a miniature biography of the author, my personal review of the book, rabbit holes I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/2019\/12\/04\/brief-overview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Overview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-funk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}