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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... produce a new one , just as mixing blue and yellow produces green . Taste , though , has been shown to be quite differ- ent . When foods with different taste qualities are mixed , these qualities do not fuse to produce a new taste but ...
... produce a new one , just as mixing blue and yellow produces green . Taste , though , has been shown to be quite differ- ent . When foods with different taste qualities are mixed , these qualities do not fuse to produce a new taste but ...
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... produced annually by this Chinese village , the villagers were estimated to need no more than a sixth . What happened ... produce the some- what less than four ounces of beefsteak that likewise provide 270 calories . In short , present ...
... produced annually by this Chinese village , the villagers were estimated to need no more than a sixth . What happened ... produce the some- what less than four ounces of beefsteak that likewise provide 270 calories . In short , present ...
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... producing an ecological disaster that reduced India to the eroded and deforested semidesert it is today . At this ... produce a female calf as a male one , but that is the chance the farmer must take . What makes the cow essential to ...
... producing an ecological disaster that reduced India to the eroded and deforested semidesert it is today . At this ... produce a female calf as a male one , but that is the chance the farmer must take . What makes the cow essential to ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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