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Title: Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture by Marvin Harris ISBN: 1-57766-015-3 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Love the animals - especially when nicely cooked
Comment: I read this book 13 years ago and it was in many respects an eye-opener to me:
1. the statement that meat was positively good to eat, not something to frown upon as many nutritionists (and Jeremy Rifkin!) do. Gradually, this perspective is reinforced by the discoveries of human paleontologists that fat and meat might have played a key role in the evolution of the human brain.
2.that religious prescriptions can be reduced to a materialistic background e.g a live cow for Indian peasants is of greater use than after slaughtering etcetera.
Not that I put all his advices in practice: I take perhaps horsemeat once or twice a year. But I can recommend grasshoppers! Nice nutty taste.
When preparing a lecture about food choice I wanted to check if the book was still in print, and I was glad to discover that it is! Let everybody profit from it!
Rating: 4
Summary: A common man's view of this enlightened work.
Comment: I have become increasingly interested in nutrition of late and although this book deals less with the issue of nutrition and more with the issue of culture. I found it extremely useful in putting my developing nutritional beliefs in perspective. Harris does a brilliant job of answering many of why(s) in a manner that removes the hocus-pocus and the just-because(s) that we've been fed growing up. I consider myself fortunate to have read this book and have since recommended it several of my of my friends. There is a caveat to this book. The author cares nothing for religious reservation or social delicacies. He tells it like it is and if you can't approach this book with your mind wide open then you probably shouldn't approach it at all. I intend to read the rest of his work because I respect his method of thought.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good to Read!
Comment: As with anything by Harris, a thoroughly enjoyable read. It is mind-boggling that Harris's work and his cultural materialist theories are not better known than the sociobiological garbage so beloved of the media and academia these days. In spite of the sociobio claims that virtually anything that humans do is based on genetics, Harris consistently trumps their arguments with examples of the variability of cultural beliefs, from refusing to eat foods because the gods don't want us to, to beliefs that perfectly edible foods are disgusting, to the belief that the gods want us to eat human flesh. And he demonstrates how all that talk about the food preferences of the gods is really a smokescreen for (originally) practical survival issues.
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Title: Food and Culture: A Reader by Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik, Penny Van Esterik ISBN: 0415917107 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches : The Riddles of Culture by Marvin Harris ISBN: 0679724680 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Why Nothing Works : The Anthropology of Daily Life by Marvin Harris ISBN: 0671635778 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 15 January, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Cannibals and Kings : Origins of Cultures by Marvin Harris ISBN: 067972849X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Our Kind : Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going by Marvin Harris ISBN: 0060919906 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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