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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... less hard for their daily bread . Out of the 1129 hours worked by one Chinese irrigation farmer in a year , only 122 were needed to grow enough food to sustain that farmer . A blue - collar worker in the United States , on the other ...
... less hard for their daily bread . Out of the 1129 hours worked by one Chinese irrigation farmer in a year , only 122 were needed to grow enough food to sustain that farmer . A blue - collar worker in the United States , on the other ...
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... less energy than lean tissue , and because people usually become less active in their later years , the need for calories declines each decade after the age of twenty which means that a person who does not eat considerably less at sixty ...
... less energy than lean tissue , and because people usually become less active in their later years , the need for calories declines each decade after the age of twenty which means that a person who does not eat considerably less at sixty ...
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... less . A study of more than five hundred elderly people in California , begun in 1948 and ended in 1962 when 141 ... less than $ 1500 . With less money available , they tend to substitute less ex- pensive bread and cereal for fresh ...
... less . A study of more than five hundred elderly people in California , begun in 1948 and ended in 1962 when 141 ... less than $ 1500 . With less money available , they tend to substitute less ex- pensive bread and cereal for fresh ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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