Part I. Cultural materialism as a research strategy : Research strategies and the structure of science -- The epistemology of cultural materialism -- Theoretical principles of cultural materialism -- The scope of cultural materialist theories -- Part II. The alternatives : Sociobiology and biological reductionism -- Dialectical materialism -- Structuralism -- Structural marxism -- Psychological and cognitive idealism -- Eclecticism -- Obscurantism

1. Social evolution
2. Culture -- Origin