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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... anthropologists , came about largely because few archeological re- mains of plant - gathering have been unearthed . The wooden stick used by women for digging out roots and tubers would have decayed , whereas the man's stone hunting ...
... anthropologists , came about largely because few archeological re- mains of plant - gathering have been unearthed . The wooden stick used by women for digging out roots and tubers would have decayed , whereas the man's stone hunting ...
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... anthropologist has described it , “ a kind of social universal joint " that can be made to fit a wide variety of ... anthropologists began studying the potlatch late in the nineteenth century , it had become an orgy of conspicuous ...
... anthropologist has described it , “ a kind of social universal joint " that can be made to fit a wide variety of ... anthropologists began studying the potlatch late in the nineteenth century , it had become an orgy of conspicuous ...
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... Anthropologists ' Cookbook . New York : Universe Books . LANGER , WILLIAM . 1975. “ American Foods and Europe's ... Anthropological Linguistics , vol . 14 , pp . 155-171 . 1969. " Semantic Cuisine . " Journal of Linguistics , vol . 5 ...
... Anthropologists ' Cookbook . New York : Universe Books . LANGER , WILLIAM . 1975. “ American Foods and Europe's ... Anthropological Linguistics , vol . 14 , pp . 155-171 . 1969. " Semantic Cuisine . " Journal of Linguistics , vol . 5 ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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