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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The Hare are not only horrified by the thought of eating dogflesh , they
experience enormous difficulty in killing sick , lame , or useless dogs , even
though they make their living by routinely killing other animals . The people at
Colville Lake are ...
The Hare are not only horrified by the thought of eating dogflesh , they
experience enormous difficulty in killing sick , lame , or useless dogs , even
though they make their living by routinely killing other animals . The people at
Colville Lake are ...
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I fear that my explanation of why state societies kill people but do not eat them
will remain unconvincing unless I can ... followed a highly ritualized procedure
laden with symbolic significance in killing their victims and distributing their flesh .
I fear that my explanation of why state societies kill people but do not eat them
will remain unconvincing unless I can ... followed a highly ritualized procedure
laden with symbolic significance in killing their victims and distributing their flesh .
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throughout the year at which as many as 100 prisoners were sacrificed at a time ,
the priests killed much larger ... That would put the killing capacity of the highly
experienced surgical teams at the tops of the pyramids back up to 78 , 000 .
throughout the year at which as many as 100 prisoners were sacrificed at a time ,
the priests killed much larger ... That would put the killing capacity of the highly
experienced surgical teams at the tops of the pyramids back up to 78 , 000 .
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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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