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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... ritual needs . A less familiar example of the spread of a food for ritual use is the planting throughout the Mediterranean in Roman times of citrus trees , which are not native to the Mediterranean . The whole story of their ...
... ritual needs . A less familiar example of the spread of a food for ritual use is the planting throughout the Mediterranean in Roman times of citrus trees , which are not native to the Mediterranean . The whole story of their ...
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... ritual practices . Some Hindu beliefs , such as those concerning ritual purity and the ven- eration of various animals , were adopted from the tribes and in- corporated into the Hindu system of ethics . Almost all tribes set themselves ...
... ritual practices . Some Hindu beliefs , such as those concerning ritual purity and the ven- eration of various animals , were adopted from the tribes and in- corporated into the Hindu system of ethics . Almost all tribes set themselves ...
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... Ritual observances were suspended , since any kind of ceremony on Tiko- pia , no matter how minor , involves the exchange of foodstuffs . As the desperation grew , the family itself ceased to function as a food- sharing unit . The death ...
... Ritual observances were suspended , since any kind of ceremony on Tiko- pia , no matter how minor , involves the exchange of foodstuffs . As the desperation grew , the family itself ceased to function as a food- sharing unit . The death ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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