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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... hunters and gatherers need spend only a few hours a day . For more than ninety - nine percent of its history , down to the beginnings of agriculture , the human species sustained itself by hunting and gathering . This cultural ...
... hunters and gatherers need spend only a few hours a day . For more than ninety - nine percent of its history , down to the beginnings of agriculture , the human species sustained itself by hunting and gathering . This cultural ...
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... hunting - gathering ways may be seen in the behavior of modern humans . A roast is ritually butch- ered at the dinner table by the senior male in the household , wielding a weapon larger than a carving knife need be , and by the ...
... hunting - gathering ways may be seen in the behavior of modern humans . A roast is ritually butch- ered at the dinner table by the senior male in the household , wielding a weapon larger than a carving knife need be , and by the ...
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... hunting by males is not the central event . That it was so , and for so long , in the minds of anthropologists , came about largely because few archeological re- mains of plant - gathering have been unearthed . The wooden stick used by ...
... hunting by males is not the central event . That it was so , and for so long , in the minds of anthropologists , came about largely because few archeological re- mains of plant - gathering have been unearthed . The wooden stick used by ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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