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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... fish wrapped in a banana leaf whose acidity dissolves the fish bones and thereby makes the calcium in them available ; the French practice of cook- ing fish with sorrel has the same effect . Putrefied food is eaten in numerous societies ...
... fish wrapped in a banana leaf whose acidity dissolves the fish bones and thereby makes the calcium in them available ; the French practice of cook- ing fish with sorrel has the same effect . Putrefied food is eaten in numerous societies ...
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... fish broke out in hives that resembled the spots on the fish ; those who violated a taboo against eating turtle meat were likely to suffer shortness of breath or a skin reaction . Even those " modern " Ponapeans who knowingly violated ...
... fish broke out in hives that resembled the spots on the fish ; those who violated a taboo against eating turtle meat were likely to suffer shortness of breath or a skin reaction . Even those " modern " Ponapeans who knowingly violated ...
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... fish , another woman cook him — husband he sing out plenty people come kaikai [ that is , come to eat ] . " He ... fish , yams , bananas , all piled as high as possible to overwhelm the guests . At one such feast , given on Guadalcanal ...
... fish , another woman cook him — husband he sing out plenty people come kaikai [ that is , come to eat ] . " He ... fish , yams , bananas , all piled as high as possible to overwhelm the guests . At one such feast , given on Guadalcanal ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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