Food taboos: Their origins and purposes

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Meyer Rochow, Victor Benno ^a,b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MENSTRUATION; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; TABOO;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION; PREGNANCY; TABOO;

EID: 67651108575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-5-18     Document Type: Review

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