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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... body temperature within cer- tain narrow limits in relation to the environment . Because eating increases body temperature , the familiar loss of appetite in hot weather is biologically adaptive , and so is the desire to eat more when ...
... body temperature within cer- tain narrow limits in relation to the environment . Because eating increases body temperature , the familiar loss of appetite in hot weather is biologically adaptive , and so is the desire to eat more when ...
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... body . Well - intentioned parents who provide children with spinach and milk - each in itself a nutritious food — at the same meal are actually preventing the body's utilization of the calcium in the milk . ) A second complication has ...
... body . Well - intentioned parents who provide children with spinach and milk - each in itself a nutritious food — at the same meal are actually preventing the body's utilization of the calcium in the milk . ) A second complication has ...
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... body : It produces diarrhea and other disturbances of the digestive tract ; hypertension and even- tual collapse of the circulatory system ; a sharp decrease in the intake of oxygen by the respiratory system ; a decrease in strength and ...
... body : It produces diarrhea and other disturbances of the digestive tract ; hypertension and even- tual collapse of the circulatory system ; a sharp decrease in the intake of oxygen by the respiratory system ; a decrease in strength and ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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