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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... prohibited to the Mbum Kpau women , for example , are butchered only on rare ceremonial occa- sions . On the other hand , pregnant women may have their choice of substitute foods that are just as nutritious as the prohibited ones . The ...
... prohibited to the Mbum Kpau women , for example , are butchered only on rare ceremonial occa- sions . On the other hand , pregnant women may have their choice of substitute foods that are just as nutritious as the prohibited ones . The ...
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... prohibited both by Moses and by the Israelites ' hostile neighbors , but also that the meat from cattle , sheep , goats , and other animals was in fact eaten by both . The Israelites might possibly have prohibited cooking meat with milk ...
... prohibited both by Moses and by the Israelites ' hostile neighbors , but also that the meat from cattle , sheep , goats , and other animals was in fact eaten by both . The Israelites might possibly have prohibited cooking meat with milk ...
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... prohibited for food . Birds are expected to inhabit the air ; that makes an abomination of the ostrich , which does not fly , and of the swan , the pelican , and the heron , which spend most of their time in water . The " creeping ...
... prohibited for food . Birds are expected to inhabit the air ; that makes an abomination of the ostrich , which does not fly , and of the swan , the pelican , and the heron , which spend most of their time in water . The " creeping ...
Contenido
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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