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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... Nuer , a cattle - complex people of southern Sudan , the herds are so small that each person owns an average of no more than two animals . The Nuer say that the sacrifice of a healthy young ox is fitting for an important occasion such ...
... Nuer , a cattle - complex people of southern Sudan , the herds are so small that each person owns an average of no more than two animals . The Nuer say that the sacrifice of a healthy young ox is fitting for an important occasion such ...
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... Nuer might say about the reli- gious importance of sacrifice , it is a matter of economic survival to be flexible about what is offered on the occasion of a particular sacrifice . The size of the herds at the moment , the question of ...
... Nuer might say about the reli- gious importance of sacrifice , it is a matter of economic survival to be flexible about what is offered on the occasion of a particular sacrifice . The size of the herds at the moment , the question of ...
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... Nuer sacrifice . The Euthyphro quotation is from the translation by B. Jowett in The Dialogues of Plato ( New York : Random House , 1937 , vol . 1 , pg . 397 ) . The statement by Tylor is from Primitive Culture ( New York : Har- per ...
... Nuer sacrifice . The Euthyphro quotation is from the translation by B. Jowett in The Dialogues of Plato ( New York : Random House , 1937 , vol . 1 , pg . 397 ) . The statement by Tylor is from Primitive Culture ( New York : Har- per ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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