| Description |
352 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- I. Insects as human food. 1. Insect consumption from pre-history to the present day -- 2. Survey of entomophagous habits on the various continents -- 3. The nutritive value of insects as human food -- II. History of entomophagy. 1. From Antiquity to Ad-Damiri -- 2. From Aldrovandi to the present day -- 3. Relics of entomophagy in Europe and some reports on spider eating -- III. Australia. 1. General introduction -- 2. Witchetty grubs and ghost moths -- 3. The Bugong-moth and other Lepidoptera -- 4. Longicorn beetle grubs and other beetles -- 5. Honey ants and other ants -- 6. Honey-bags -- 7. The lerp-manna of leafhoppers -- 8. Various other insects -- 9. Tasmania -- 10. New Guinea and Polynesia -- IV. Africa. 1. General introduction -- 2. Termites -- 3. Locusts -- 4. Honey-hunting and hive-keeping -- 5. Various insects as food -- 6. The Pygmies of the Congo forests -- 7. Madagascar -- 8. Locusts and other insects in North Africa -- V. Asia. 1. General introduction -- 2. The Middle East (locusts, mannas, honey and honey-hunting) -- 3. India -- 4. Indonesia -- 5. Honey-hunting by the Veddas and other Asiatic Pygmies -- 6. Siam -- 7. Indochina -- 8. Burma and Malaya -- 9. China and Japan -- VI. The Americas. 1. General introduction -- 2. United States -- 3. Mexico -- 4. The West Indies -- 5. South America -- 6. Honey-hunting and bee-keeping in Central and South America -- 7. The honey-civilization of the Guayakis |
| Analysis |
Insects as food |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 331-350 |
| Notes |
Also available in print |
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Print version record |
| Restricted |
Mediated access: access to First Nations materials may be restricted while an audit, reparative description and reclassification of these materials is in progress |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Food.
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Edible insects.
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Honey.
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Insects.
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Primitive societies -- Food.
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Ethnology.
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Honey.
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Insecta.
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| Author |
SpringerLink (Online service)
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| LC no. |
51007248 |
| ISBN |
9401761590 |
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9789401761598 |
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