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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Traditionally, after an interval of unknown duration, the women exhumed the
bones and cleaned them but did not eat any of the flesh. During the 1920s the
women changed this practice, possibly to compensate for a decline in the rations
of ...
Traditionally, after an interval of unknown duration, the women exhumed the
bones and cleaned them but did not eat any of the flesh. During the 1920s the
women changed this practice, possibly to compensate for a decline in the rations
of ...
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I am not suggesting that the diet is adequate, but merely that there are grounds
for suspecting that it is an improvement over what women normally eat. Wilson's
conclusion that "the severe restrictions to the postpartum diet [are] inimical to the
...
I am not suggesting that the diet is adequate, but merely that there are grounds
for suspecting that it is an improvement over what women normally eat. Wilson's
conclusion that "the severe restrictions to the postpartum diet [are] inimical to the
...
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women and which I have alluded to in discussing the distribution of animal foods.
Perhaps they more accurately represent a mixture of self-exploitation by women
as well as exploitation of women by men. In line with this possibility, another ...
women and which I have alluded to in discussing the distribution of animal foods.
Perhaps they more accurately represent a mixture of self-exploitation by women
as well as exploitation of women by men. In line with this possibility, another ...
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Contents
ONe Good to Think or Good to Eat? I3 | 19 |
three The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
FOUR The Abominable Pig | 67 |
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| Title | Good to eat: riddles of food and culture |
| Author | Marvin Harris |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 0671503669, 9780671503666 |
| Length | 289 pages |
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