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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Page 53
These figures include the calories and proteins in the edible portion of the cow's
carcass at the end of its life, but as I'll show in a moment, the beef-eating taboo
probably never prevented the cow from making a terminal contribution in the form
...
These figures include the calories and proteins in the edible portion of the cow's
carcass at the end of its life, but as I'll show in a moment, the beef-eating taboo
probably never prevented the cow from making a terminal contribution in the form
...
Page 58
help pay for the cow's upkeep. Even more than oxen, cows play the role of village
scavengers, subsisting on straw, chaff, garbage, leaves, patches of roadside
grass and other substances that humans cannot digest. Does the beef-eating, ...
help pay for the cow's upkeep. Even more than oxen, cows play the role of village
scavengers, subsisting on straw, chaff, garbage, leaves, patches of roadside
grass and other substances that humans cannot digest. Does the beef-eating, ...
Page 109
About 60 percent by weight is beef and veal; 39 percent is pork; 1 percent is lamb
and mutton; and the amount of goat meat consumed is almost too small to
measure. Over a three-day period 39 percent of Americans will eat beef at least
once, ...
About 60 percent by weight is beef and veal; 39 percent is pork; 1 percent is lamb
and mutton; and the amount of goat meat consumed is almost too small to
measure. Over a three-day period 39 percent of Americans will eat beef at least
once, ...
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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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