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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... primates became adapted to an arboreal environment . There they were able to exploit a nutritional wealth of fruits , nuts , and seeds as well as insects that had not previously been tapped to any great extent by mammals . As a way of ...
... primates became adapted to an arboreal environment . There they were able to exploit a nutritional wealth of fruits , nuts , and seeds as well as insects that had not previously been tapped to any great extent by mammals . As a way of ...
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... primates in the wild , except for the milk of domes- ticated mammals , certain spices , and cola and caffeine beverages . Like humans , but unlike most other mammals , primates are selec- tive in that they show clear preferences not ...
... primates in the wild , except for the milk of domes- ticated mammals , certain spices , and cola and caffeine beverages . Like humans , but unlike most other mammals , primates are selec- tive in that they show clear preferences not ...
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... primates ( the New World mon- keys excepted ) with only thirty - two teeth instead of the usual mammalian forty - four . Despite many similarities , the teeth of modern primates and of modern humans do show clear differences . As ...
... primates ( the New World mon- keys excepted ) with only thirty - two teeth instead of the usual mammalian forty - four . Despite many similarities , the teeth of modern primates and of modern humans do show clear differences . As ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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