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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... group , the elders allocate plots for culti- vation by the members . - The kinship group is obliged by the larger ... groups . Marriage alliances are essential also to the system of exchange found among horticulturists- a much broader ...
... group , the elders allocate plots for culti- vation by the members . - The kinship group is obliged by the larger ... groups . Marriage alliances are essential also to the system of exchange found among horticulturists- a much broader ...
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... groups in interior New Guinea suffer from a deficiency of animal protein . Some are fortunate enough to obtain as much as a quarter of their protein from pigs ; for many other groups , this source provides less than seven percent . The ...
... groups in interior New Guinea suffer from a deficiency of animal protein . Some are fortunate enough to obtain as much as a quarter of their protein from pigs ; for many other groups , this source provides less than seven percent . The ...
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... groups competed with one another in giving ever more lavish feasts , in providing more food than at the last one in short , to make the guests eat until they were bloated , were forced to stagger off and vomit up what they had eaten ...
... groups competed with one another in giving ever more lavish feasts , in providing more food than at the last one in short , to make the guests eat until they were bloated , were forced to stagger off and vomit up what they had eaten ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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