Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and CultureThe anthropologist/author takes on some of the major food riddles, including cannibalism, to reveal why a culture accepts or spurns specific foods |
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Staden spent nine months in 1554 in a Tupinamba village before escaping and
making his way back to Europe. What Staden saw with his own eyes was the
ritual torture of prisoners of war, their dismemberment, and the cooking,
distribution, ...
Staden spent nine months in 1554 in a Tupinamba village before escaping and
making his way back to Europe. What Staden saw with his own eyes was the
ritual torture of prisoners of war, their dismemberment, and the cooking,
distribution, ...
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will be able to regroup or summon up the assistance of allies and return to the
fray. This kind of security implies in turn a scale of military operations that could
not be managed by groups like the Tupinamba. Their military operations
consisted ...
will be able to regroup or summon up the assistance of allies and return to the
fray. This kind of security implies in turn a scale of military operations that could
not be managed by groups like the Tupinamba. Their military operations
consisted ...
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I wish I could say that the reason cannibalism was rejected was because states
and empires like Sumeria, Egypt, Han China, Rome, or Persia had "higher"
religious and moral values than the Tupinamba, the Maori, the Iroquois, and
other ...
I wish I could say that the reason cannibalism was rejected was because states
and empires like Sumeria, Egypt, Han China, Rome, or Persia had "higher"
religious and moral values than the Tupinamba, the Maori, the Iroquois, and
other ...
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Good to eat: riddles of food and culture
Crítica de los usuarios - Not Available - Book VerdictWhy are the world's food habits or "foodways,'' as Harris refers to them, so diverse? In this scholarly yet fast-paced and very readable work, anthropologist Harris argues that "major differences in ... Leer comentario completo
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ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
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