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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It could have been any of these closely related species : Hyrax capensia , Hyrax
syriacus , or Procavia capensis . Whichever it was , it had no rumen and it did not
chew the cud . This leaves the camel as the only bona fide cud - chewer that the ...
It could have been any of these closely related species : Hyrax capensia , Hyrax
syriacus , or Procavia capensis . Whichever it was , it had no rumen and it did not
chew the cud . This leaves the camel as the only bona fide cud - chewer that the ...
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against sandstorms , camels were the most important possession of the Middle
Eastern desert nomads . ( The camel ' s hump concentrates fat — not water . It
acts as an energy reserve . By concentrating the fat in the hump , the rest of the
skin ...
against sandstorms , camels were the most important possession of the Middle
Eastern desert nomads . ( The camel ' s hump concentrates fat — not water . It
acts as an energy reserve . By concentrating the fat in the hump , the rest of the
skin ...
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camel meat made it impossible to use cud - chewing as the sole taxonomic
principle for identifying land vertebrates that were good to eat . They needed
another criterion to exclude camels . And this was how “ split hooves ” got into the
picture .
camel meat made it impossible to use cud - chewing as the sole taxonomic
principle for identifying land vertebrates that were good to eat . They needed
another criterion to exclude camels . And this was how “ split hooves ” got into the
picture .
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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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