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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... example of the influence of aroma is hot chicken soup , sometimes called " Jewish penicillin " because of its reputed powers in curing colds and fevers . Its efficacy in speeding the flow of mucus through nasal passages has now been ...
... example of the influence of aroma is hot chicken soup , sometimes called " Jewish penicillin " because of its reputed powers in curing colds and fevers . Its efficacy in speeding the flow of mucus through nasal passages has now been ...
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... example , the mortality rate at the age of three months for bottle - fed infants is two and a half times higher . The shift to the bottle in developing countries is one of the most perplexing dietary changes seen in this century ...
... example , the mortality rate at the age of three months for bottle - fed infants is two and a half times higher . The shift to the bottle in developing countries is one of the most perplexing dietary changes seen in this century ...
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... example , consists of about a hundred chemicals and potatoes of about a hundred and fifty . Even natural foods consist of chem- icals , and a considerable number of these are toxic — as can be seen in this well - balanced and tasty ...
... example , consists of about a hundred chemicals and potatoes of about a hundred and fifty . Even natural foods consist of chem- icals , and a considerable number of these are toxic — as can be seen in this well - balanced and tasty ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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