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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Farmers needed oxen to pull plows, which were needed in turn to penetrate the
hard- packed soils found throughout much of northern India. In fact, it was the use
of ox-drawn plows to break the plains bordering the Ganges River that started ...
Farmers needed oxen to pull plows, which were needed in turn to penetrate the
hard- packed soils found throughout much of northern India. In fact, it was the use
of ox-drawn plows to break the plains bordering the Ganges River that started ...
Page 65
No other creature had the versatility, stamina, and efficiency of India's zebu cattle.
To enter the contest for animal mother of India, a domestic species had to be at
least big and strong enough to pull the plow. This immediately eliminates goats, ...
No other creature had the versatility, stamina, and efficiency of India's zebu cattle.
To enter the contest for animal mother of India, a domestic species had to be at
least big and strong enough to pull the plow. This immediately eliminates goats, ...
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Already in medieval times the epoch of the war-horse was giving way to the
epoch of the plow horse. All across northern Europe, wealthy farmers were
learning how to exploit the heavier, more powerful breeds which had been
developed to ...
Already in medieval times the epoch of the war-horse was giving way to the
epoch of the plow horse. All across northern Europe, wealthy farmers were
learning how to exploit the heavier, more powerful breeds which had been
developed to ...
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Contents
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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| Title | Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture |
| Author | Marvin Harris |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1985 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 13 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0671503669, 9780671503666 |
| Length | 289 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural |
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