Archive for January 12, 2009
Pig Love, the Introduction
One of my favorite anthropologists, Marvin Harris, is at it again. This time he focuses on the pig. Everyone knows examples of apparently irrational food habits. Chinese like dog meat but despise cow milk. We like cow milk but we won’t eat dogs. Some tribes in Brazil like ants but despise venison. And so it [...]
Posted on January 12, 2009 at 12:00 am by Charles · Permalink
· Leave a comment
In: Diet, Populations
In: Diet, Populations
