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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... tion of previous taboos — as , for example , the drinking of coffee and wine at dinner by older children in modern societies . Among the southern Bantu , initiation ceremonies take place when a suf- ficient number of boys have reached ...
... tion of previous taboos — as , for example , the drinking of coffee and wine at dinner by older children in modern societies . Among the southern Bantu , initiation ceremonies take place when a suf- ficient number of boys have reached ...
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... tion against eating beef would oblige the high - caste people to find some other way of providing essential proteins to tens of millions of the lower castes . When the conditions prevailing in the ancient Near East made it uneconomic to ...
... tion against eating beef would oblige the high - caste people to find some other way of providing essential proteins to tens of millions of the lower castes . When the conditions prevailing in the ancient Near East made it uneconomic to ...
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... tion of , 178 ; cuisine of , 197 , 201 ; nutritional balance in diet of , 34 ; putrefied food eaten by , 12 ; sub- sistence patterns of , 195. See also specific tribes Amhara ( Ethiopia ) : linguistic cate- gories associated with food ...
... tion of , 178 ; cuisine of , 197 , 201 ; nutritional balance in diet of , 34 ; putrefied food eaten by , 12 ; sub- sistence patterns of , 195. See also specific tribes Amhara ( Ethiopia ) : linguistic cate- gories associated with food ...
Contenido
The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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