food and eating: an anthropological perspective
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Food and Eating: An Anthropological Perspective. We have to eat; we like to eat. A profoundly social urge: food is almost always shared. Nutrition plays only a small part in our food choices. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Food and Eating:An Anthropological Perspective
We have to eat; we like to eat
A profoundly social urge:food is almost always shared
Nutrition plays only a small part in our food choices
All cultures go to considerable lengths to obtain preferred foods; ignore valuable food sources close at
hand
What we eat becomes a most powerful symbol of who we are
Food identification:ethnic, religious, class