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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... potlatches ( from a Nootka Indian word , patchatl , “ to give " ) held by those along the Northwest Coast from Oregon to southern Alaska . By the time anthropologists began studying the potlatch late in the nineteenth century , it had ...
... potlatches ( from a Nootka Indian word , patchatl , “ to give " ) held by those along the Northwest Coast from Oregon to southern Alaska . By the time anthropologists began studying the potlatch late in the nineteenth century , it had ...
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... potlatch given by Kwakiutl Indians , the guests consumed the meat from fifty seals , and among the gifts they received were six slaves , eight canoes , fifty - four elk skins , two thousand silver bracelets , and thirty - three thousand ...
... potlatch given by Kwakiutl Indians , the guests consumed the meat from fifty seals , and among the gifts they received were six slaves , eight canoes , fifty - four elk skins , two thousand silver bracelets , and thirty - three thousand ...
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... potlatch for another group whose rivers had failed to produce many sal- mon . The guests would be feasted for a few days and would go home loaded down with presents of food that would help get them through a lean time . The river people ...
... potlatch for another group whose rivers had failed to produce many sal- mon . The guests would be feasted for a few days and would go home loaded down with presents of food that would help get them through a lean time . The river people ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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