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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For example , a relative lack of the essential amino acid lysine limits the protein
utilization efficiency of wheat flour to about 42 percent of eggs . Beans have
about the same low protein efficiency because of limits imposed by the deficit of ...
For example , a relative lack of the essential amino acid lysine limits the protein
utilization efficiency of wheat flour to about 42 percent of eggs . Beans have
about the same low protein efficiency because of limits imposed by the deficit of ...
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They also pull plows , but for reasons that will become clear in a later chapter ,
they need to consume much more grass and straw per pound of body weight
than cattle , and they lack the ability of cattle to subsist on various kinds of
emergency ...
They also pull plows , but for reasons that will become clear in a later chapter ,
they need to consume much more grass and straw per pound of body weight
than cattle , and they lack the ability of cattle to subsist on various kinds of
emergency ...
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At the same time that the lack of efficient alternative sources of animal food raised
the value of the enemy as “ meat on the hoof , ” it lowered the value of the enemy
as serf , slave , and taxpayer . It did this in two ways . First , the absence of ...
At the same time that the lack of efficient alternative sources of animal food raised
the value of the enemy as “ meat on the hoof , ” it lowered the value of the enemy
as serf , slave , and taxpayer . It did this in two ways . First , the absence of ...
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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 Cow | 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 | 12 Ago. 2009 |
| ISBN | 0671503669, 9780671503666 |
| Largo | 289 páginas |
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