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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... stomach lining , it is deadly to living cells and powerful enough to dissolve zinc . ― Why , then , does not the hydrochloric acid cause the stomach to digest itself ? Sometimes , of course , it does , as when emotional upsets ...
... stomach lining , it is deadly to living cells and powerful enough to dissolve zinc . ― Why , then , does not the hydrochloric acid cause the stomach to digest itself ? Sometimes , of course , it does , as when emotional upsets ...
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... stomach , the kneaded mass of the meal is flushed by muscular contractions into the small intestine , which is about twenty feet long in adults , and from which the bulk of the food is absorbed by the body . The small intestine is the ...
... stomach , the kneaded mass of the meal is flushed by muscular contractions into the small intestine , which is about twenty feet long in adults , and from which the bulk of the food is absorbed by the body . The small intestine is the ...
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... stomach that had been empty for too long , filling it presumably stopped the pangs and the hunger as well . The same notion persists to this day , even though a moment's thought will show it to be an incomplete explanation of why people ...
... stomach that had been empty for too long , filling it presumably stopped the pangs and the hunger as well . The same notion persists to this day , even though a moment's thought will show it to be an incomplete explanation of why people ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
Copyright | |
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