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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... boiled . Although the specific pattern is not exactly the same in every society , Lévi - Strauss be- lieves that a contrast between roasting and boiling is universal . The Trumai , Yagua , and Jívaro Indians of South America and the ...
... boiled . Although the specific pattern is not exactly the same in every society , Lévi - Strauss be- lieves that a contrast between roasting and boiling is universal . The Trumai , Yagua , and Jívaro Indians of South America and the ...
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... boiled food for women . The Maori of New Zealand considered it fitting for a noble to eat roasted foods but to avoid all contact with boiled foods , more appropriate to people of low birth . Lévi - Strauss sees human beings as ...
... boiled food for women . The Maori of New Zealand considered it fitting for a noble to eat roasted foods but to avoid all contact with boiled foods , more appropriate to people of low birth . Lévi - Strauss sees human beings as ...
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... boiling and steaming , in the latter of which water is more distant from the food . The triangle assumes the complex geometrical shape of a tetrahedron when the categories of fried ( boiled in oil instead of in water ) and braised ( boiled ...
... boiling and steaming , in the latter of which water is more distant from the food . The triangle assumes the complex geometrical shape of a tetrahedron when the categories of fried ( boiled in oil instead of in water ) and braised ( boiled ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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