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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... wild foods of the land and waters . The passenger pigeon , until the last wild one was shot in 1899 , had been possibly the most abundant bird ever to have existed on the planet ; in 1810 the ornithologist Alexander Wilson reported a ...
... wild foods of the land and waters . The passenger pigeon , until the last wild one was shot in 1899 , had been possibly the most abundant bird ever to have existed on the planet ; in 1810 the ornithologist Alexander Wilson reported a ...
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... wild state would similarly have been useful to the ancestors of American Indians only when little else was available . The flesh of wild squash is bitter and dry ; wild beans are thick - skinned and bland . The wild forms of all three ...
... wild state would similarly have been useful to the ancestors of American Indians only when little else was available . The flesh of wild squash is bitter and dry ; wild beans are thick - skinned and bland . The wild forms of all three ...
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... wild beans and wild squash grow in disturbed soils of the same sort as wild maize , with the beans even twining around the stalks for support . In focusing their attention on maize , beans , and squash , the domesti- cators thus merely ...
... wild beans and wild squash grow in disturbed soils of the same sort as wild maize , with the beans even twining around the stalks for support . In focusing their attention on maize , beans , and squash , the domesti- cators thus merely ...
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The Biological Baseline | 17 |
The Emerging Human Pattern | 40 |
Eating as Cultural Adaptation | 57 |
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