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 21
The sole purpose of this massive effort is to provide feed for animals, much of it
by freeing low-quality domestic grains for stock raising while using the imports for
human consumption. In 1981 the people of the Soviet bloc consumed 126 million
...
The sole purpose of this massive effort is to provide feed for animals, much of it
by freeing low-quality domestic grains for stock raising while using the imports for
human consumption. In 1981 the people of the Soviet bloc consumed 126 million
...
Page 64
Thus far the diversions of grains to the production of animal foods is slight
compared with what is happening in beef-eating nations like Mexico and Brazil,
where beef cattle are now eating better than from one-third to one-half of the
people at ...
Thus far the diversions of grains to the production of animal foods is slight
compared with what is happening in beef-eating nations like Mexico and Brazil,
where beef cattle are now eating better than from one-third to one-half of the
people at ...
Page 232
As compared with cattle and equines, which can subsist on humanly inedible
plants, human beasts of burden are a costly mode of moving a grain harvest from
one region to another. One can see therefore why the Aztecs' captives were
worth ...
As compared with cattle and equines, which can subsist on humanly inedible
plants, human beasts of burden are a costly mode of moving a grain harvest from
one region to another. One can see therefore why the Aztecs' captives were
worth ...
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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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