Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of EatingHoughton Mifflin, 1980 - 279 páginas How 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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... Bantu tribes of Zimbabwe that are organized matrilineally , children are free to run into the hut of a maternal aunt and take food without asking , but in the house of a paternal aunt they must ask politely — whereas among the ...
... Bantu tribes of Zimbabwe that are organized matrilineally , children are free to run into the hut of a maternal aunt and take food without asking , but in the house of a paternal aunt they must ask politely — whereas among the ...
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... Bantu peoples of southern Africa , a sacrifice might con- sist of flour or beer , but is most usually a domesticated goat , sheep , or an ox . Wild animals are never offered as sacrifices because they are free gifts of nature and ...
... Bantu peoples of southern Africa , a sacrifice might con- sist of flour or beer , but is most usually a domesticated goat , sheep , or an ox . Wild animals are never offered as sacrifices because they are free gifts of nature and ...
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... spread of agriculture , later by colonialism , and most recently by industrialization . The San have been deprived of game by the expansion of the cattle- keeping Bantu into their lands ; Eskimos no longer hunt Taste and Distaste 167.
... spread of agriculture , later by colonialism , and most recently by industrialization . The San have been deprived of game by the expansion of the cattle- keeping Bantu into their lands ; Eskimos no longer hunt Taste and Distaste 167.
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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