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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... males increased by more than four inches over their immigrant male parents ; in the second generation , though , no further increase took place . For females the pattern was different : The increase in stature was much slower , but it ...
... males increased by more than four inches over their immigrant male parents ; in the second generation , though , no further increase took place . For females the pattern was different : The increase in stature was much slower , but it ...
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... males is not the central event . That it was so , and for so long , in the minds of anthropologists , came about ... males hunting dangerous game long obscured for anthropologists the less dramatic , but much more important , aspect of ...
... males is not the central event . That it was so , and for so long , in the minds of anthropologists , came about ... males hunting dangerous game long obscured for anthropologists the less dramatic , but much more important , aspect of ...
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... males than in females suggests that their function is not directly related to feeding . Males and females do , after all , eat the same foods and would therefore be expected to have similar teeth . Rather , primate males employ their ...
... males than in females suggests that their function is not directly related to feeding . Males and females do , after all , eat the same foods and would therefore be expected to have similar teeth . Rather , primate males employ their ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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