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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... hunting - gather- ing society are enormous and most of these differences ... gathering . This cultural adaptation is based on two facts : First , some ... hunting has been unsuc- cessful . From these two facts , several conditions of ...
... hunting - gather- ing society are enormous and most of these differences ... gathering . This cultural adaptation is based on two facts : First , some ... hunting has been unsuc- cessful . From these two facts , several conditions of ...
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... gathering way of life , some in the northern tundras , others in the deserts of Australia and southern Africa , in the rain forests of Africa , and in parts of South America and Southeast Asia . Vestiges of hunting - gathering ways may ...
... gathering way of life , some in the northern tundras , others in the deserts of Australia and southern Africa , in the rain forests of Africa , and in parts of South America and Southeast Asia . Vestiges of hunting - gathering ways may ...
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... hunting by males is not the central event . That it was so , and for so long , in the minds of anthropologists , came about largely because few archeological re- mains of plant - gathering have been unearthed . The wooden stick used by ...
... hunting by males is not the central event . That it was so , and for so long , in the minds of anthropologists , came about largely because few archeological re- mains of plant - gathering have been unearthed . The wooden stick used by ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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