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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... beef , but elsewhere the texts approve the slaughtering of cattle . They make clear that the priestly Brahman castes ate beef , and were taught rules for carving and distributing portions of it at feasts . The Buddha placed a taboo on ...
... beef , but elsewhere the texts approve the slaughtering of cattle . They make clear that the priestly Brahman castes ate beef , and were taught rules for carving and distributing portions of it at feasts . The Buddha placed a taboo on ...
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... beef would oblige the high - caste people to find some other way of providing essential proteins to tens of millions of the lower castes . When the conditions prevailing in the ancient Near East made it uneconomic to raise swine , which ...
... beef would oblige the high - caste people to find some other way of providing essential proteins to tens of millions of the lower castes . When the conditions prevailing in the ancient Near East made it uneconomic to raise swine , which ...
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... beef and pork raise one final problem . After a taboo develops for good ecological and cultural reasons and has been sanctioned by resort to the supernatural , how is it to be maintained ? During the thousands of years in which taboos ...
... beef and pork raise one final problem . After a taboo develops for good ecological and cultural reasons and has been sanctioned by resort to the supernatural , how is it to be maintained ? During the thousands of years in which taboos ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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