Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and CultureThis text explains the diversity of the world's gastronomic customs, demonstrating that what appears to be irrational food tastes turn out really to have been shaped by practical, or economic, or political necessity. |
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User Review - 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 ... Read full review
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| Title | Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture William G. Lockwood and Yvonne R. Lockwood Collection of National, Ethnic and Regional Foodways |
| Author | Marvin Harris |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Waveland Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 1577660153, 9781577660156 |
| Length | 289 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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