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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... Europeans are brought up to feel much the same way about bread , and many North Americans genuinely be- lieve that dinner is not really dinner without meat . Finally , what is eaten establishes one's social , religious , and ethnic ...
... Europeans are brought up to feel much the same way about bread , and many North Americans genuinely be- lieve that dinner is not really dinner without meat . Finally , what is eaten establishes one's social , religious , and ethnic ...
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... Europeans , eat- ing dogs is taboo as being equivalent to endocannibalism , since dogs are part of the human household . The justification , though , is not really consistent . North Americans and Europeans often treat calves , rabbits ...
... Europeans , eat- ing dogs is taboo as being equivalent to endocannibalism , since dogs are part of the human household . The justification , though , is not really consistent . North Americans and Europeans often treat calves , rabbits ...
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... Europeans to separate them- selves from the eating process , even avoiding manual contact with their food . When the ... European pattern eventually emerged , in which each person is provided with a table setting of as many as a dozen ...
... Europeans to separate them- selves from the eating process , even avoiding manual contact with their food . When the ... European pattern eventually emerged , in which each person is provided with a table setting of as many as a dozen ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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