Mary Douglas, a symbolic anthropologist, has argued that which of the following explains Near Eastern food taboos such as the prohibition against eating pork?
A) Prohibited animals are those that violate cultural ideas about the order of creation.
B) Any food will be tabooed when the cost of producing it outweighs its value (in calories or nutrients) .
C) Animals included in food taboos are always those that do not occur naturally in the geographic region of the taboo; either the animal never lived in the region, or they lived there once and are no extinct.
D) All of the answers are correct.
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