Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of EatingHow people eat reveals to an astonishing degree all of the other qualities of their society. A look at an American fast-food restaurant is as diagnostic of culture as a New Guinea headhunter's shopping list of edible relatives. Beginning with an explanation of what happens to a steak dinner--and to you--when you eat it, Farb constructs a fascinating demonstration of the connections between eating habits and human behavior, explaining, for example, why Bantu society would unravel without beer, why Chinese don't drink milkshakes, and why Moslems and Jews abhor pork. |
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... alcohol that in some languages , including English , " to drink " also connotes the drinking of alcohol . In every society , the use of intoxicating beverages has its own etiquette and its own relation to the super- natural . ( As A. E. ...
... alcohol that in some languages , including English , " to drink " also connotes the drinking of alcohol . In every society , the use of intoxicating beverages has its own etiquette and its own relation to the super- natural . ( As A. E. ...
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... alcohol . Such differences aside , genetic differences do seem to exist in the way alcohol af- fects various human populations . Controlled experiments com- paring subjects of Asiatic ancestry ( Chinese , Japanese , and Korean ) with ...
... alcohol . Such differences aside , genetic differences do seem to exist in the way alcohol af- fects various human populations . Controlled experiments com- paring subjects of Asiatic ancestry ( Chinese , Japanese , and Korean ) with ...
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... alcohol has become a part of their social fabric . No one knows for certain when the distilled spirits originally called aqua vitae ( " water of life " ) were first used in Ireland , but they were in evidence when the English invaded ...
... alcohol has become a part of their social fabric . No one knows for certain when the distilled spirits originally called aqua vitae ( " water of life " ) were first used in Ireland , but they were in evidence when the English invaded ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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