The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture |
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... Aztecs to exaggerate the number of victims available for cannibal feasts , we are still left with the fact that the Aztecs practiced warfare cannibalism on an unprecedented scale . No one can deny that the Aztec state and Aztec religion ...
... Aztecs to exaggerate the number of victims available for cannibal feasts , we are still left with the fact that the Aztecs practiced warfare cannibalism on an unprecedented scale . No one can deny that the Aztec state and Aztec religion ...
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... Aztec's taste for human flesh . No one has come forth to deny that the Aztecs waged incessant warfare far and wide throughout central Mexico ; nor has anyone sought to protect the Aztecs from being depicted as the world's number one ...
... Aztec's taste for human flesh . No one has come forth to deny that the Aztecs waged incessant warfare far and wide throughout central Mexico ; nor has anyone sought to protect the Aztecs from being depicted as the world's number one ...
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... Aztecs in order to prove that meat hunger could not have motivated their cannibalism . It is indeed true that in ... Aztecs consumed a greater variety of foods than we do . ” But so did the meat - hungry warfare cannibals of Amazonia ...
... Aztecs in order to prove that meat hunger could not have motivated their cannibalism . It is indeed true that in ... Aztecs consumed a greater variety of foods than we do . ” But so did the meat - hungry warfare cannibals of Amazonia ...
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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