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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... Aztec Indians of Mexico . Hernán Cortés and the soldiers who overran the Aztec state in 1521 were a ruthless lot , toughened in battle against the Moors and the Indians of the Caribbean islands . Nevertheless , even they had been ...
... Aztec Indians of Mexico . Hernán Cortés and the soldiers who overran the Aztec state in 1521 were a ruthless lot , toughened in battle against the Moors and the Indians of the Caribbean islands . Nevertheless , even they had been ...
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... Aztec should have turned to cannibalism on such a scale has recently been explained in ecological terms , some unique to that people . All the ancient civilizations were similar in that their increasing populations soon outstripped ...
... Aztec should have turned to cannibalism on such a scale has recently been explained in ecological terms , some unique to that people . All the ancient civilizations were similar in that their increasing populations soon outstripped ...
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... Aztec have stated that anthropophagy on a large scale need not have existed because the Aztec had alter- native sources of protein : fish and frogs , many kinds of waterfowl , armadillos , gophers , snakes , lizards , and insects — all ...
... Aztec have stated that anthropophagy on a large scale need not have existed because the Aztec had alter- native sources of protein : fish and frogs , many kinds of waterfowl , armadillos , gophers , snakes , lizards , and insects — all ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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