by Marvin Harris · Alianza Editorial Sa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420639772
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«Bueno para comer» is the cultural anthropology essay by Marvin Harris, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (331 pages, in Spanish).
The anthropologist investigates why a food can be a delicacy in one culture and provoke rejection in another. He argues that tastes are not whims: food preferences and prohibitions respond to a calculation of practical, nutritional, ecological and economic costs and benefits, as well as to each people's food culture.
Work with subtitle «Enigmas de alimentación y cultura», originally published as «Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture» (1985). Social Sciences collection, number 3006.
For readers interested in cultural anthropology, food and social sciences.
Marvin Harris was an American anthropologist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City. A prolific writer, he was highly influential in the development of cultural materialism. In his work, he combined Karl Marx's emphasis on the forces of production with Thomas Malthus's insights on the impact of demographic factors on other parts of the sociocultural system.
