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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Just to look at a cow gives many Hindus a sense of pleasure . ... To critics who
oppose the custom of feeding cows that are too old to have calves and give milk ,
Hindus reply : “ Will you then send your mother to a slaughter house when she ...
Just to look at a cow gives many Hindus a sense of pleasure . ... To critics who
oppose the custom of feeding cows that are too old to have calves and give milk ,
Hindus reply : “ Will you then send your mother to a slaughter house when she ...
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ren ” cows sooner or later calve and give milk . Even if a cow only produces a calf
every three or four years and gives only two or three liters of milk a day , the
combined value of the calves and milk , plus dung , yields a profit boosting the ...
ren ” cows sooner or later calve and give milk . Even if a cow only produces a calf
every three or four years and gives only two or three liters of milk a day , the
combined value of the calves and milk , plus dung , yields a profit boosting the ...
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Pigs give birth to large litters of helpless piglets . The sow builds a den where it
leaves them while it forages for food . The sow has no reservoir for storing milk in
advance of nursing . The sucking piglets stimulate the production of milk , which ...
Pigs give birth to large litters of helpless piglets . The sow builds a den where it
leaves them while it forages for food . The sow has no reservoir for storing milk in
advance of nursing . The sucking piglets stimulate the production of milk , which ...
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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
Contenido
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred | 47 |
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture |
| Autor | Marvin Harris |
| Editor | Simon and Schuster, 1985 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Indiana |
| Digitalizado | 13 Ago. 2009 |
| ISBN | 0671503669, 9780671503666 |
| Largo | 289 páginas |
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