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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... modern North Americans and Europeans toward the eating of insects obscures the large proportion of pro- tein they must have supplied for early humans , and still supply for some American Indians and groups in Africa and the Near East ...
... modern North Americans and Europeans toward the eating of insects obscures the large proportion of pro- tein they must have supplied for early humans , and still supply for some American Indians and groups in Africa and the Near East ...
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... modern societies often send their children to ortho- dontists to give them what is now considered a " correct " bite — that is , with the upper incisors slightly overhanging the lower ones to produce the shearing action of a pair of ...
... modern societies often send their children to ortho- dontists to give them what is now considered a " correct " bite — that is , with the upper incisors slightly overhanging the lower ones to produce the shearing action of a pair of ...
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... modern societies have been told that it is no longer important that a sacrifice be food fit for the gods ; rather , it is the act of giving that matters . This modern view of sacrifice — as a moral act that places high value on things ...
... modern societies have been told that it is no longer important that a sacrifice be food fit for the gods ; rather , it is the act of giving that matters . This modern view of sacrifice — as a moral act that places high value on things ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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