by Marvin Harris · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420674384
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Bueno para comer» is the anthropology essay by Marvin Harris published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
Marvin Harris investigates why some peoples reject foods that others consider delicious and argues that these preferences are not whimsical but a balance between nutritional benefits, cost of acquisition, and ecological conditions. With examples from different cultures, he shows that food habits follow a materialist logic.
Included in El libro de bolsillo (Biblioteca Harris); translated from English by Joaquín Calvo Basarán and Gonzalo Gil Catalina. The original, Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture, was published in 1985.
A read for fans of cultural anthropology and essays that explain food habits from a materialist perspective.
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.
