Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and CultureWaveland Press, 1998 M07 2 - 289 páginas Why are human food habits so diverse? Why do Americans recoil at the thought of dog meat? Jews and Moslems, pork? Hindus, beef? Why do Asians abhor milk? In Good to Eat, best-selling author Marvin Harris leads readers on an informative detective adventure to solve the worlds major food puzzles. He explains the diversity of the worlds gastronomic customs, demonstrating that what appear at first glance to be irrational food tastes turn out really to have been shaped by practical, economic, or political necessity. In addition, his smart and spirited treatment sheds wisdom on such topics as why there has been an explosion in fast food, why history indicates that its bad to eat people but good to kill them, and why children universally reject spinach. Good to Eat is more than an intellectual adventure in food for thought. It is a highly readable, scientifically accurate, and fascinating work that demystifies the causes of myriad human cultural differences. |
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... anthropologist, I also subscribe to the cultural relativism of food tastes: food habits are not to be ridiculed or condemned simply because they are different. But that still leaves much to dispute and ponder. Why are human foodways so ...
... Anthropologists living in remote parts of the world regularly report cases of meat hunger which invite comparison with modernday efforts to increase meat consumption. The phenomenon is especially common among the native peoples of South ...
... anthropologists expresses a special esteem for animal flesh by using meat to reinforce the social ties that bind campmates and kinfolk together. Far more often than plant foods, animal products must be shared reciprocally between ...
... anthropologists believed that monkeys and apes were strict vegetarians. Now, after closer and more meticulous observation in the wild, most primates turn out to be omnivorous just like us. And many species of monkeys and apes are not ...
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Contenido
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The Abominable Pig
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Hippophagy
| 88 |
Holy Beef USA
| 109 |
Lactophiles and Lactophobes Milk Lovers and Milk Haters
| 130 |
Small Things
| 154 |
Dogs Cats Dingoes and Other Pets
| 175 |
People Eating
| 199 |
Better to Eat
| 235 |
References | 249 |
Bibliography | 258 |
Index | 275 |