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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... China . The sweet potato , long grown by South American Indians , was early imported as a crop into China and was established by 1594 , when it provided sustenance while the native grains were suc- cumbing to drought . An eighteenth ...
... China . The sweet potato , long grown by South American Indians , was early imported as a crop into China and was established by 1594 , when it provided sustenance while the native grains were suc- cumbing to drought . An eighteenth ...
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... Chinese cuisine were already in use . Under the Chou , nearly all of the twenty different methods of cooking known in China today were practiced with the notable excep- tion , however , of one that is now most characteristic . That ...
... Chinese cuisine were already in use . Under the Chou , nearly all of the twenty different methods of cooking known in China today were practiced with the notable excep- tion , however , of one that is now most characteristic . That ...
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... China . Beauchamp and Maller ( 1977 ) summarize the influence of tastes and aromas on children . The quotation from ... China is largely from Chang ( 1977 , 1973 ) , Freeman ( 1977 ) , Anderson and Anderson ( 1975 ) , and Tannahill ...
... China . Beauchamp and Maller ( 1977 ) summarize the influence of tastes and aromas on children . The quotation from ... China is largely from Chang ( 1977 , 1973 ) , Freeman ( 1977 ) , Anderson and Anderson ( 1975 ) , and Tannahill ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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