Marvin Harris

Marvin Harris

Marvin Harris (August 18, 1927 – October 25, 2001) was an American anthropologist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.

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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 of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Tags: Family, Myself, Impossible

Marvin Harris

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

Tags: Religion, Themselves, Less

Marvin Harris

I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.

Tags: Good, Must, Important

Marvin Harris

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

Tags: Eat, Hungry, Grass

Marvin Harris

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

Tags: Enough, Knowing, Situation

Marvin Harris

Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.

Tags: Bad, Over, Interest

Marvin Harris