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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... hunters had to share the day's catch with each other, to create a web of mutual obligations, to prevent jealousies and strife, and to preserve communities that embraced both the invisible rulers of the world and their earthly creations ...
... hunters. (So much for the ever-popular theory that humans are unique “killer apes”) On the basis of a decade of observation in Gombe National Park in Tanzania, Geza Teleki estimates that chimpanzees use about 10 percent of their time to ...
Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. every two weeks. Chimpanzee hunters frequently cooperate with each other. As many as nine chimpanzees, mostly males, position and reposition and coordinate their movements, sometimes for an hour ...
... hunting for their protein supply and which appears to be utterly irrational and arbitrary. During the height of their “hungry season” when all sources of nourishment are scarce, hunter-gatherers frequently refuse to eat certain cuts of ...
... hunter-gatherer ancestors were doing during the hundred thousand or so years prior to the domestication of plants and animals. By piecing together evidence from archaeology, paleontology, and the study of contemporary hunter-gatherers ...
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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 |