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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... roasted by accident would probably have been dis- dained , since the taste for roast food is culturally acquired . Why ruin a good haunch of bloody meat or kill the taste of a tuber by putting it into a fire ? A human preference for ...
... roasted by accident would probably have been dis- dained , since the taste for roast food is culturally acquired . Why ruin a good haunch of bloody meat or kill the taste of a tuber by putting it into a fire ? A human preference for ...
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... roasted , fried , steamed or rotted . In fact , Lévi - Strauss sees each category of food as having its own level of social prestige , roasted foods being in general highly prestigious and identified with masculinity , whereas boiled or ...
... roasted , fried , steamed or rotted . In fact , Lévi - Strauss sees each category of food as having its own level of social prestige , roasted foods being in general highly prestigious and identified with masculinity , whereas boiled or ...
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... roasted foods for men and boiled food for women . The Maori of New Zealand considered it fitting for a noble to eat roasted foods but to avoid all contact with boiled foods , more appropriate to people of low birth . Lévi - Strauss sees ...
... roasted foods for men and boiled food for women . The Maori of New Zealand considered it fitting for a noble to eat roasted foods but to avoid all contact with boiled foods , more appropriate to people of low birth . Lévi - Strauss sees ...
Contenido
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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