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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... pets live out their lives untroubled by any risk of being eaten by their owners or sacrificed to the gods . Unlike sacred cattle , though , these millions of dogs perform few services beyond barking at intruders , occasionally flushing ...
... pets live out their lives untroubled by any risk of being eaten by their owners or sacrificed to the gods . Unlike sacred cattle , though , these millions of dogs perform few services beyond barking at intruders , occasionally flushing ...
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The Anthropology of Eating Peter Farb, George J. Armelagos. pets , no distaste is connected with using them later for food . The fact is that the societies in which dogs are eaten , whether or not they are pets or are useful in providing ...
The Anthropology of Eating Peter Farb, George J. Armelagos. pets , no distaste is connected with using them later for food . The fact is that the societies in which dogs are eaten , whether or not they are pets or are useful in providing ...
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... pets in the households of fat people also tend to be fat . - A predisposition toward putting on fat might have been an evo- lutionary tendency whose ill effects were manifested only after agricultural technology made possible an ...
... pets in the households of fat people also tend to be fat . - A predisposition toward putting on fat might have been an evo- lutionary tendency whose ill effects were manifested only after agricultural technology made possible an ...
Contents
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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