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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... appear to have been sweetened . For this reason the chemicals in the artichoke are now being investigated as ... appears to be inborn , but it is also influenced by individual physiology . People who do not produce enough of certain ...
... appear to have been sweetened . For this reason the chemicals in the artichoke are now being investigated as ... appears to be inborn , but it is also influenced by individual physiology . People who do not produce enough of certain ...
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... appear to be wandering untended , they are providing the dung which is used as fuel and fertilizer . Cow dung is actually the preferred fuel of India because it burns slowly , allowing farm families to work in the fields while food on ...
... appear to be wandering untended , they are providing the dung which is used as fuel and fertilizer . Cow dung is actually the preferred fuel of India because it burns slowly , allowing farm families to work in the fields while food on ...
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... appear to have been more deeply involved with all aspects of eating than any other people in history . It was not ... appears to have been spent in thinking about the meal that had just been completed and the one to be eaten next . - By ...
... appear to have been more deeply involved with all aspects of eating than any other people in history . It was not ... appears to have been spent in thinking about the meal that had just been completed and the one to be eaten next . - By ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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