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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... taboos . No dire consequences having occurred as a result , that was the end of food taboos in Hawaii . More often , enough consequences either real or imagined do ensue to sustain a taboo . Where the belief is widespread that eat- ing ...
... taboos . No dire consequences having occurred as a result , that was the end of food taboos in Hawaii . More often , enough consequences either real or imagined do ensue to sustain a taboo . Where the belief is widespread that eat- ing ...
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... taboo had forewarned . Most people in Western societies have experienced vomiting and other physical reactions after the discovery that a reviled food has been unknowingly eaten , and the same thing holds true for people in non ...
... taboo had forewarned . Most people in Western societies have experienced vomiting and other physical reactions after the discovery that a reviled food has been unknowingly eaten , and the same thing holds true for people in non ...
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... taboo . Actual deaths because of the breaking of food taboos have been widely reported from virtually all parts of the world . It has been supposed that the deaths were due to poison secretly administered by witch doctors or shamans to ...
... taboo . Actual deaths because of the breaking of food taboos have been widely reported from virtually all parts of the world . It has been supposed that the deaths were due to poison secretly administered by witch doctors or shamans to ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
Copyright | |
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