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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... adaptation to the environment as in- volving unconscious " strategies " for increasing the gains from a successful adaptation and decreasing the losses from an unsuccess- ful one . Gain might , for example , result from a decreased need ...
... adaptation to the environment as in- volving unconscious " strategies " for increasing the gains from a successful adaptation and decreasing the losses from an unsuccess- ful one . Gain might , for example , result from a decreased need ...
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... adaptation , and their social structure ) . Before the basic proposition of this book — that by knowing how people eat , anthropologists can know much about them and their society can be explored in depth , the question to be an- swered ...
... adaptation , and their social structure ) . Before the basic proposition of this book — that by knowing how people eat , anthropologists can know much about them and their society can be explored in depth , the question to be an- swered ...
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... Adaptation LTHOUGH for most people in modern societies a meal is A an interval spent apart from the work day , for others in many parts of the world , obtaining and preparing food is itself the day's work . On the island of Tikopia ...
... Adaptation LTHOUGH for most people in modern societies a meal is A an interval spent apart from the work day , for others in many parts of the world , obtaining and preparing food is itself the day's work . On the island of Tikopia ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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