Meat, a natural symbol / / Nick Fiddes
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| Autore: |
Fiddes Nick <1960, >
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| Titolo: |
Meat, a natural symbol / / Nick Fiddes
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 394.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Meat |
| Food - Symbolic aspects | |
| Food habits | |
| Food preferences | |
| Carnivora | |
| Meat industry and trade | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Introduction; FOOD=MEAT; A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEAT EATING; A MATTER OF TASTE; MORE THAN A MEAL; EVOLUTION AND ELEVATION; THE POWER OF MEAT; THE BARBARITY OF MEAT; THE RELUCTANT CANNIBAL; PETS AND OTHER GREY ANIMALS; THE JOY OF SEX; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; ETHICS; ECOLOGY; CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book is a broad-ranging and provocative study of the human passion for meat. It will intrigue anyone who has ever wondered why meat is important to us; why we eat some animals but not others; why vegetarianism is increasing; why we aren't cannibals; and how meat is associated with environmental destruction. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Meat, a natural symbol |
| ISBN: | 92-870-1190-7 |
| 1-134-87882-6 | |
| 1-138-83407-6 | |
| 1-280-32606-9 | |
| 9786610326068 | |
| 0-203-28392-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780117903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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