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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... amounts mainly roots , berries , and the buds from willow thick- ets on the tundra , supplemented by the fermented stomach con- tents of plant - eating mammals such as the caribou they hunt . These stomach contents are in fact regarded ...
... amounts mainly roots , berries , and the buds from willow thick- ets on the tundra , supplemented by the fermented stomach con- tents of plant - eating mammals such as the caribou they hunt . These stomach contents are in fact regarded ...
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... amounts of processed foods bought at trading posts , have nutri- tional diseases become common . At the opposite extreme from the meat - eating Eskimos are those peoples who consume plants almost exclusively . Some are vege- tarians by ...
... amounts of processed foods bought at trading posts , have nutri- tional diseases become common . At the opposite extreme from the meat - eating Eskimos are those peoples who consume plants almost exclusively . Some are vege- tarians by ...
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... amount of the cooking medium makes the difference between deep - frying and French- frying ( both of which use large amounts of fat ) and sautéing ( which uses a small amount ) . Still other distinctions are based on the use of a ...
... amount of the cooking medium makes the difference between deep - frying and French- frying ( both of which use large amounts of fat ) and sautéing ( which uses a small amount ) . Still other distinctions are based on the use of a ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
Copyright | |
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