by Marvin Harris · Verlag Klett-Cotta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783608958126
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«Wohlgeschmack und Widerwillen. Die Rätsel der Nahrungstabus» is Marvin Harris's essay published by Klett-Cotta in paperback (308 pages, in German).
Marvin Harris analyses food taboos and culinary preferences across different cultures, seeking practical and ecological explanations behind what is considered edible or repugnant. Against religious or symbolic explanations, he proposes that many traditions respond to material and adaptive conditions.
Translation by Ulrich Enderwitz. Published in 1991. Greif-Bücher collection.
For readers interested in anthropology, food history, 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.
