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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... percent at times when insects are abundant and can be easily captured . This was dramatically seen in the behavior of several groups of baboons in Botswana several years ago , when an explosive increase in the numbers of insects on ...
... percent at times when insects are abundant and can be easily captured . This was dramatically seen in the behavior of several groups of baboons in Botswana several years ago , when an explosive increase in the numbers of insects on ...
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... percent more nutrients in addi- tion to the Recommended Dietary Allowances ; for lactation , the increased need is approximately fifty percent . The iron content of clay in the amounts typically eaten by a pregnant woman in Ghana ranges ...
... percent more nutrients in addi- tion to the Recommended Dietary Allowances ; for lactation , the increased need is approximately fifty percent . The iron content of clay in the amounts typically eaten by a pregnant woman in Ghana ranges ...
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... percent of women married to university stu- dents breast - fed their infants , and that about forty percent of upper - class women did so , as compared to only about thirteen percent of those belonging to lower socioeconomic classes ...
... percent of women married to university stu- dents breast - fed their infants , and that about forty percent of upper - class women did so , as compared to only about thirteen percent of those belonging to lower socioeconomic classes ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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