Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so importan… - Marvin Harris
Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so importan…
- Marvin Harris
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are co… - Marvin Harris
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are co…
There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to material conditions, to the systems… - Marvin Harris
There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to material conditions, to the systems…
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and beh… - Marvin Harris
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and beh…
I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they … - Marvin Harris
I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they …
Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thou… - Marvin Harris
Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thou…
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultur… - Marvin Harris
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultur…
In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery - Marvin Harris
In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery
The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others. - Marvin Harris
The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
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