Food and Evolution : toward a theory of human food habits / edited by Marvin Harris and Eric B. Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001, editor.

Ross, Eric B., editor.

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Symposium 1983 : Cedar Key, Fla.)

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits.

Human evolution.

Nutrition--Social aspects.

Nutrition.

Primitive societies--Food.

Primitive societies.

Feeding Behavior.

Medical Subjects:

Feeding Behavior.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

ix, [1], 633, [5] pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1987.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Theoretical Overview

Part II. Bioevolutionary Antecedents and Constraints

Part III. Nutritional and Biopsychological Constraints

Part IV. Pre-State Foodways: Past and Present

Part V. The Political Economy and the Political Ecology of Contemporary Foodways

Part VI. Discussion and Conclusion

Afterword.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at the 94th Symposium of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research at Cedar Key, Florida, October 23, 30, 1983.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

ISBN:

0877224358

0877226687 (paper)

OCLC:

13359618