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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... energy is expended on niceties rather than on the primary need of stoking the body with energy . Actually , though , their method of food preparation is a beneficial adaptation to the environmental conditions that have long pre- vailed ...
... energy is expended on niceties rather than on the primary need of stoking the body with energy . Actually , though , their method of food preparation is a beneficial adaptation to the environmental conditions that have long pre- vailed ...
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... energy : E m x t x r That is , a society's annual production of food energy , E ( as ex- pressed in thousands of calories or kilocalories ) , divided by the number of food producers ( m ) times the hours each works at food production ...
... energy : E m x t x r That is , a society's annual production of food energy , E ( as ex- pressed in thousands of calories or kilocalories ) , divided by the number of food producers ( m ) times the hours each works at food production ...
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... energy by the mother , with the result that an undernourished female begins menstruation later and enters the menopause earlier than a well - nourished one . Nursing can delay the resumption of menstruation because it delays the buildup ...
... energy by the mother , with the result that an undernourished female begins menstruation later and enters the menopause earlier than a well - nourished one . Nursing can delay the resumption of menstruation because it delays the buildup ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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