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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As for animal flesh, some members of the priestly Brahman caste reject it entirely;
but most Brahmans eat either eggs, poultry, or fish in addition to copious
quantities of milk and dairy products. Brahmans, at any rate, constitute a small
minority ...
As for animal flesh, some members of the priestly Brahman caste reject it entirely;
but most Brahmans eat either eggs, poultry, or fish in addition to copious
quantities of milk and dairy products. Brahmans, at any rate, constitute a small
minority ...
Page 55
I cannot say precisely how the Brahmans and Kshatriyas continued to obtain
cattle for their gluttonous feasts, but taxation, confiscation, or other coercive
measures would have been necessary once the peasants were unable or
unwilling to ...
I cannot say precisely how the Brahmans and Kshatriyas continued to obtain
cattle for their gluttonous feasts, but taxation, confiscation, or other coercive
measures would have been necessary once the peasants were unable or
unwilling to ...
Page 56
The account I have just given of the struggle between Hinduism and Brahmanism
was first pieced together by Rajandra Mitra, a great Sanskrit scholar of the late
nineteenth century. This is what he wrote in 1872: When the Brahmans had to ...
The account I have just given of the struggle between Hinduism and Brahmanism
was first pieced together by Rajandra Mitra, a great Sanskrit scholar of the late
nineteenth century. This is what he wrote in 1872: When the Brahmans had 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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Bibliographic information
| Title | Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture |
| Author | Marvin Harris |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1985 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 12 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0671503669, 9780671503666 |
| Length | 289 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural |
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