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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... plant food — and often to only a few items - within that category . Cattle eat grass , chipmunks eat seeds , and hyenas eat mostly carrion . Monkeys and apes , the human's primate relatives , are usually given both animal and plant foods ...
... plant food — and often to only a few items - within that category . Cattle eat grass , chipmunks eat seeds , and hyenas eat mostly carrion . Monkeys and apes , the human's primate relatives , are usually given both animal and plant foods ...
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... plant foods , in some societies the diet seems to consist of either meat or plant food almost exclusively . Certain Eskimo groups , for example , were long thought to subsist solely on meat . When hunting had been good , an adult might ...
... plant foods , in some societies the diet seems to consist of either meat or plant food almost exclusively . Certain Eskimo groups , for example , were long thought to subsist solely on meat . When hunting had been good , an adult might ...
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... foods that humans find edible are also consumed by primates in the wild , except for the milk of domes- ticated ... plant foods . The actual proportion of animal to plant food is less important than that primates have probably always ...
... foods that humans find edible are also consumed by primates in the wild , except for the milk of domes- ticated ... plant foods . The actual proportion of animal to plant food is less important than that primates have probably always ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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