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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... mammals . As a way of locating this new food source , the primates evolved refinements in vision : The ste- reoscopic placement of the eyes and the ability to discriminate colors were advantageous because at a distance it is of course ...
... mammals . As a way of locating this new food source , the primates evolved refinements in vision : The ste- reoscopic placement of the eyes and the ability to discriminate colors were advantageous because at a distance it is of course ...
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... mammals , certain spices , and cola and caffeine beverages . Like humans , but unlike most other mammals , primates are selec- tive in that they show clear preferences not only for specific foods but also for specific parts of these ...
... mammals , certain spices , and cola and caffeine beverages . Like humans , but unlike most other mammals , primates are selec- tive in that they show clear preferences not only for specific foods but also for specific parts of these ...
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... mammals , including humans and some other primates , depart little from the basic mammalian pattern of dentition ; they lack such specializa- tions as the enormous front teeth used by horses for cropping grass or the slashing canines ...
... mammals , including humans and some other primates , depart little from the basic mammalian pattern of dentition ; they lack such specializa- tions as the enormous front teeth used by horses for cropping grass or the slashing canines ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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