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This leaves the camel as the only bona fide cud-chewer that the Israelites couldn'
t eat. Every vertebrate land animal that is not a ruminant was forbidden flesh. And
only one vertebrate land animal that is a ruminant, the camel, was forbidden.
This leaves the camel as the only bona fide cud-chewer that the Israelites couldn'
t eat. Every vertebrate land animal that is not a ruminant was forbidden flesh. And
only one vertebrate land animal that is a ruminant, the camel, was forbidden.
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against sandstorms, camels were the most important possession of the Middle
Eastern desert nomads. (The camel's hump concentrates fat — not water. It acts
as an energy reserve. By concentrating the fat in the hump, the rest of the skin ...
against sandstorms, camels were the most important possession of the Middle
Eastern desert nomads. (The camel's hump concentrates fat — not water. It acts
as an energy reserve. By concentrating the fat in the hump, the rest of the skin ...
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camel meat made it impossible to use cud-chewing as the sole taxonomic
principle for identifying land vertebrates that were good to eat. They needed
another criterion to exclude camels. And this was how "split hooves" got into the
picture.
camel meat made it impossible to use cud-chewing as the sole taxonomic
principle for identifying land vertebrates that were good to eat. They needed
another criterion to exclude camels. And this was how "split hooves" got into the
picture.
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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
Contenido
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 15 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
FOUR The Abominable Pig | 67 |
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture A Touchstone book |
| Autor | Marvin Harris |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | Simon & Schuster, 1987 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 12 Oct. 2009 |
| ISBN | 0671633082, 9780671633080 |
| Largo | 289 páginas |
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