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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Just as the combination of population growth and political exploitation led to a
deterioration of agriculture in India, so too population growth and political
exploitation took their toll in Islamic lands. If the response to demographic and
political ...
Just as the combination of population growth and political exploitation led to a
deterioration of agriculture in India, so too population growth and political
exploitation took their toll in Islamic lands. If the response to demographic and
political ...
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Under these circumstances, fair- skinned, nontanning individuals who could
utilize the weakest and briefest doses of sunlight to synthesize vitamin D3 would
have been strongly favored by natural selection. Much of the population lost its
ability ...
Under these circumstances, fair- skinned, nontanning individuals who could
utilize the weakest and briefest doses of sunlight to synthesize vitamin D3 would
have been strongly favored by natural selection. Much of the population lost its
ability ...
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In India, for example, outside of the traditional northwest pastoral zones, the
frequency of lactose tolerance is intermediate or low, although the population has
probably been consuming milk products for at least four thousand years.
In India, for example, outside of the traditional northwest pastoral zones, the
frequency of lactose tolerance is intermediate or low, although the population has
probably been consuming milk products for at least four thousand years.
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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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Información bibliográfica
| 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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