Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of EatingHow 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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... Feast of Weeks ( Shavuot ) and the Feast of Tabernacles ( Succoth ) , at the new year , on the first day of the new moon , as an act of repentance , and in fulfillment of vows . According to the first book of Kings ( 8:63 ) , Solomon ...
... Feast of Weeks ( Shavuot ) and the Feast of Tabernacles ( Succoth ) , at the new year , on the first day of the new moon , as an act of repentance , and in fulfillment of vows . According to the first book of Kings ( 8:63 ) , Solomon ...
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... feast , whose function is to maintain the unity of those who participate in it . In Java , such feasts are known as slametan . The kin , friends , and neighbors who come together to eat at such a gathering are said to be joined by dead ...
... feast , whose function is to maintain the unity of those who participate in it . In Java , such feasts are known as slametan . The kin , friends , and neighbors who come together to eat at such a gathering are said to be joined by dead ...
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... feast - giver , who is also the redistributor of surpluses from local groups , is seen in those inhabitants of the islands of Melanesia known among anthropologists as the " big men " - also referred to as " men of renown , " " generous ...
... feast - giver , who is also the redistributor of surpluses from local groups , is seen in those inhabitants of the islands of Melanesia known among anthropologists as the " big men " - also referred to as " men of renown , " " generous ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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