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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SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING , human beings are omnivores — creatures who
eat both animal and vegetable foods . Like others of this ilk such as pigs , rats ,
and cockroaches , we can satisfy our nutritional needs by ingesting a very broad
...
SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING , human beings are omnivores — creatures who
eat both animal and vegetable foods . Like others of this ilk such as pigs , rats ,
and cockroaches , we can satisfy our nutritional needs by ingesting a very broad
...
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THE PUZZLE of cannibalism concerns the socially sanctioned consumption of
human flesh when other foods are available . I am not going to explain the
practice of people eating when the only food available is human flesh . That kind
of ...
THE PUZZLE of cannibalism concerns the socially sanctioned consumption of
human flesh when other foods are available . I am not going to explain the
practice of people eating when the only food available is human flesh . That kind
of ...
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On the basis of optimal foraging theory , one would seldom expect hunters to take
humans on encounter . They would be better off to pass them by in favor of palm
grubs and spiders . But warfare cannibals are not hunters of human flesh .
On the basis of optimal foraging theory , one would seldom expect hunters to take
humans on encounter . They would be better off to pass them by in favor of palm
grubs and spiders . But warfare cannibals are not hunters of human flesh .
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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 | 47 |
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| 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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