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M Harris
Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: the Riddle of Culture
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2000 MCB UP Ltd. All rights reserved.
- ISSN
- 0306-8293
- DOI
- 10.1108/03068290010280425
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Beef taboo was generally obeyed among Chinese but it is no longer significant in today’s Taiwan where large amounts of beef are imported from Australia and United States. So is the beef taboo in Chinese society culturally binding? Argues that the rise of this taboo was mainly a result of food constraint, and its fall is a result of food abundance. A notion of “rice/beef competition for land” is advanced to explain this mechanism.
Journal
International Journal of Social Economics – Emerald Publishing
Published: Apr 1, 2000
Keywords: Meat; China; Economic theory; National cultures