Eat Not this Flesh
Author: Frederick J. Simoons
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780299142544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the use and avoidance of flesh foods, including beef, pork, chicken, and eggs, camel, dog, horse, and fish, from antiquity to the present day. Simoons finds that the recurrent theme of maintaining ritual purity, good health, and well-being underlies diet habits. He emphasizes that only a full range of factors can explain eating patterns, and stresses the interplay of religious, moral, hygienic, ecological, and economic factors in the context of human culture. From publisher description.