Consuming passions: the anthropology of eatingExplores the anthropological connections between various eating habits and human behavior, with such intriguing examples and Bantu society's dependence on beer and the Chinese culture's avoidance of milkshakes |
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Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Meal as Metaphor | 97 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Consuming passions: the anthropology of eating |
| Authors | Peter Farb, George J. Armelagos |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jul 2010 |
| ISBN | 0395294487, 9780395294482 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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