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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... Flesh T HE TWO most important Judeo - Christian - Moslem myths about the origins of the human species describe the conse- quences of eating . According to the book of Genesis , Yah- weh created Adam on the sixth day , entrusted him with ...
... Flesh T HE TWO most important Judeo - Christian - Moslem myths about the origins of the human species describe the conse- quences of eating . According to the book of Genesis , Yah- weh created Adam on the sixth day , entrusted him with ...
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... flesh- without dire consequences . Why , then , have such taboos not been abandoned ? In certain instances , indeed , they have been . Early in the nineteenth century , when the native society of Hawaii was disintegrating as a result of ...
... flesh- without dire consequences . Why , then , have such taboos not been abandoned ? In certain instances , indeed , they have been . Early in the nineteenth century , when the native society of Hawaii was disintegrating as a result of ...
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... flesh came from an enemy or a relative made no difference . A few restrictions were placed on eating the corpses of certain kinds of relatives , but virtually every corpse served as food for someone . A woman did not eat her own ...
... flesh came from an enemy or a relative made no difference . A few restrictions were placed on eating the corpses of certain kinds of relatives , but virtually every corpse served as food for someone . A woman did not eat her own ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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