Marvin Harris Quotes:
Ocupation: Anthropologist
Life: August 18, 1927 - October 25, 2001
Birthday: August 18
Death: October 25
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.
source: Marvin Harris (2011). “Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures”, p.229, Vintage
topic: Vegetarianism, Victory, India, Meat Eating, Misrepresentation
