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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... Indians . The subject of anthropophagy is further complicated by the existence of several different kinds of cannibalism . Two of these are based on a social distinction : that is , whether the eater belongs to the same social group as ...
... Indians . The subject of anthropophagy is further complicated by the existence of several different kinds of cannibalism . Two of these are based on a social distinction : that is , whether the eater belongs to the same social group as ...
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... Indians of Mexico . Hernán Cortés and the soldiers who overran the Aztec state in 1521 were a ruthless lot , toughened in battle against the Moors and the Indians of the Caribbean islands . Nevertheless , even they had been appalled by ...
... Indians of Mexico . Hernán Cortés and the soldiers who overran the Aztec state in 1521 were a ruthless lot , toughened in battle against the Moors and the Indians of the Caribbean islands . Nevertheless , even they had been appalled by ...
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... Indians inhabit a hot and dry environment , are horti- culturists descended from sophisticated irrigation farmers ; they are sedentary , and have a history connected with rivalries between Spain and the United States . Any of these and ...
... Indians inhabit a hot and dry environment , are horti- culturists descended from sophisticated irrigation farmers ; they are sedentary , and have a history connected with rivalries between Spain and the United States . Any of these and ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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