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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 77
Página 139
... eaten the infected meat . After years of patient research , the cause was indeed identified as a virus with a long incubation period , spread through the eating of brain tissue . Before attempting to explain the motivations of New ...
... eaten the infected meat . After years of patient research , the cause was indeed identified as a virus with a long incubation period , spread through the eating of brain tissue . Before attempting to explain the motivations of New ...
Página 190
... eaten . The only other animals that do anything remotely approximate are the Japanese macaque monkeys , among which ... eaten each day , whether they are eaten alone or with others , the setting aside of foods for ceremonial use , and ...
... eaten . The only other animals that do anything remotely approximate are the Japanese macaque monkeys , among which ... eaten each day , whether they are eaten alone or with others , the setting aside of foods for ceremonial use , and ...
Página 223
... eaten day after day , and the variety of the diet made it unlikely that any one chemical had a chance to accumulate in the body . ( For example , about four hundred carrots would have to be eaten , one after another , before signs of ...
... eaten day after day , and the variety of the diet made it unlikely that any one chemical had a chance to accumulate in the body . ( For example , about four hundred carrots would have to be eaten , one after another , before signs of ...
Contenido
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 10 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
adaptation alcohol amounts animals appear associated become behavior believe blood body bread calories cattle cause century certain changes Chinese common considered consumed contain cooking course cuisine cultural developed diet digestive discussed drinking early eaten effect energy environment Europe Europeans example explain fact famine feast females fish four fruit give given groups hand human hundred hunting important increase Indians Italy kinds known land least less living maize males meal means meat milk natural North American nutritional obtain occurred offered once original particular percent plant population potatoes practice preferences prepared produce prohibited protein reason recent regarded result ritual roasted served sharing simply social societies sugar supply symbolic taboo taste things tion United usually various vitamins women