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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... maize , the field amounts almost to an altar and cultivating the plant to an act of worship . Every Pueblo Indian who can walk takes part in the Corn Dance . The anthropologist Dorothy Lee has summarized the central place of maize in ...
... maize , the field amounts almost to an altar and cultivating the plant to an act of worship . Every Pueblo Indian who can walk takes part in the Corn Dance . The anthropologist Dorothy Lee has summarized the central place of maize in ...
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... maize - beans - squash triad the cornerstone of their cuisine , yet they might have fastened upon numerous other plants that could easily have been domesticated ( and indeed , some were ) . Fossil remains of the maize that was ...
... maize - beans - squash triad the cornerstone of their cuisine , yet they might have fastened upon numerous other plants that could easily have been domesticated ( and indeed , some were ) . Fossil remains of the maize that was ...
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... maize , with the beans even twining around the stalks for support . In focusing their attention on maize , beans , and squash , the domesti- cators thus merely had to copy a natural model . Both in their habits of growth and in the ...
... maize , with the beans even twining around the stalks for support . In focusing their attention on maize , beans , and squash , the domesti- cators thus merely had to copy a natural model . Both in their habits of growth and in the ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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