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I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.
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In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery
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Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation…
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I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than…
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But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we…
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Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account…
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Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving…
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Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than…
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Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.
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Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part…
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Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,…
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There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to material conditions, to the…
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If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that…
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Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.
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Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,…
— Marvin Harris
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