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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Grass was to cattle as forest acorns were to pigs . And what had to be done to
make the plains safe for cattle was similar to what had been done two centuries
earlier to make the forests safe for pigs : Indians and wolves had to be subdued .
Grass was to cattle as forest acorns were to pigs . And what had to be done to
make the plains safe for cattle was similar to what had been done two centuries
earlier to make the forests safe for pigs : Indians and wolves had to be subdued .
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To capture pandora moth caterpillars the Indians built smudge fires under the
pine trees and waited for the two - and - a - half - inch creatures to become
stupefied and plop to the ground . Women , children , and old men killed and
dried these ...
To capture pandora moth caterpillars the Indians built smudge fires under the
pine trees and waited for the two - and - a - half - inch creatures to become
stupefied and plop to the ground . Women , children , and old men killed and
dried these ...
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1977 . “ Digestive Physiology . " In The Horse , ed . J . W . Evans , 241 – 58 . San
Francisco : W . H . Freeman . Hitchcock , Stephen W . 1962 . “ Insects and Indians
of the Americas . ” Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America 8 : 181 - 87 .
1977 . “ Digestive Physiology . " In The Horse , ed . J . W . Evans , 241 – 58 . San
Francisco : W . H . Freeman . Hitchcock , Stephen W . 1962 . “ Insects and Indians
of the Americas . ” Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America 8 : 181 - 87 .
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ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
EIGHT Small Things | 154 |
NINE Dogs Cats Dingoes and other Pets | 175 |
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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 | 12 Ago. 2009 |
| ISBN | 0671503669, 9780671503666 |
| Largo | 289 páginas |
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