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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... milk at the table of another family is bound to it by special obligations on both sides . The milk tie would be less charged with sentiment were it not for the uniqueness of milk itself as the single food all mothers offer to their ...
... milk at the table of another family is bound to it by special obligations on both sides . The milk tie would be less charged with sentiment were it not for the uniqueness of milk itself as the single food all mothers offer to their ...
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... milk in some societies and the strict avoidance of it in others . In the aboriginal New World , only two domesticated mammals were suitable for milking — the llama and the alpaca of the South American Andes . Apparently no attempt was ...
... milk in some societies and the strict avoidance of it in others . In the aboriginal New World , only two domesticated mammals were suitable for milking — the llama and the alpaca of the South American Andes . Apparently no attempt was ...
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... milk is to be avoided , but also that it should not be taken from the animals , since to do so is to steal an essential food from nursing young . Sizable numbers of the world's population are nonmilkers , including all the Indians of ...
... milk is to be avoided , but also that it should not be taken from the animals , since to do so is to steal an essential food from nursing young . Sizable numbers of the world's population are nonmilkers , including all the Indians of ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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