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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... human feeding behavior was foreshadowed when , perhaps seventy million years ago , ancestral primates became adapted ... human primates and eventually the symbolic language of humans . The human ability to make tools would have been ...
... human feeding behavior was foreshadowed when , perhaps seventy million years ago , ancestral primates became adapted ... human primates and eventually the symbolic language of humans . The human ability to make tools would have been ...
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... human behavior , once erect posture left the hands free to use weapons and other tools , the early humans could become hunters of game in the open country into which they had moved from the forests . According to this hypothesis ...
... human behavior , once erect posture left the hands free to use weapons and other tools , the early humans could become hunters of game in the open country into which they had moved from the forests . According to this hypothesis ...
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... human adaptation , 39 ; human differences in , 32 Metaphor , food as , 108 , 146. See also Symbolism Mexican peasants , tortilla making of , 11 Mexicans : cuisine of , 190 ; flavor prin- ciples of , 186 ; nutritional balance in diet of ...
... human adaptation , 39 ; human differences in , 32 Metaphor , food as , 108 , 146. See also Symbolism Mexican peasants , tortilla making of , 11 Mexicans : cuisine of , 190 ; flavor prin- ciples of , 186 ; nutritional balance in diet of ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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