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Marvin Harris • Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
Contrary to earlier assumptions, hunters and gatherers—even today in the marginal refugia they inhabit—are nothing like the famished, one-day-away-from-starvation desperados of folklore. Hunters and gathers have, in fact, never looked so good—in terms of their diet, their health, and their leisure. Agriculturalists, on the contrary, have never look
... See moreJames C. Scott • Against the Grain
- Sahlins (1972), p. 37. 21. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/04/the-exchange-david-plotz.html.
Cacilda Jetha • Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Peter Farb and George Armelagos in Consuming Passions
Rick Bayless • Authentic Mexican: Regional Cooking from the Heart of Mexico
Humans identified with their cattle and sheep, wrote poetry about them, and used them as a currency in marriage gifts, debt payments, and the calculation of social status. And they were grass processors. They converted plains of grass, useless and even hostile to humans, into wool, felt, clothing, tents, milk, yogurt, cheese, meat, marrow, and bone
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