The sacred cow and the abominable pig: riddles of food and culture
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line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#46474A;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">One of America's leading anthropologists offers solutions to theperplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus worshipcows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people inpost-medieval Europe believe in witches? Marvin Harris answers these and otherperplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre apeople's behavior may seem, it always stems from identifiable and intelligiblesources.line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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- Name of the Author
- Harris
Marvin - Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671633080
- Release date
- 1985
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line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#46474A;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">One of America's leading anthropologists offers solutions to thepe...