The Omnivorous Mindtxt,chm,pdf,epub,mobi下载 作者:John S. Allen 出版社: Harvard University Press 副标题: Our Evolving Relationship with Food 出版年: 2012-5-15 页数: 328 定价: USD 25.95 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780674055728
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In this gustatory tour of human history, John S. Allen demonstrates that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights into human beings' biological and cultural heritage. We humans eat a wide array of plants and animals, but unlike other omnivores we eat with our minds as much as our stomachs. This thoughtful relationship with food is part of what makes us a unique spec...
In this gustatory tour of human history, John S. Allen demonstrates that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights into human beings' biological and cultural heritage. We humans eat a wide array of plants and animals, but unlike other omnivores we eat with our minds as much as our stomachs. This thoughtful relationship with food is part of what makes us a unique species, and makes culinary cultures diverse. Not even our closest primate relatives think about food in the way Homo sapiens does. We are superomnivores whose palates reflect the natural history of our species. Drawing on the work of food historians and chefs, anthropologists and neuroscientists, Allen starts out with the diets of our earliest ancestors, explores cooking's role in our evolving brain, and moves on to the preoccupations of contemporary foodies. "The Omnivorous Mind" delivers insights into food aversions and cravings, our compulsive need to label foods as good or bad, dietary deviation from "healthy" food pyramids, and cross-cultural attitudes toward eating (with the French, bien sur, exemplifying the pursuit of gastronomic pleasure). To explain, for example, the worldwide popularity of crispy foods, Allen considers first the food habits of our insect-eating relatives. He also suggests that the sound of crunch may stave off dietary boredom by adding variety to sensory experience. Or perhaps fried foods, which we think of as bad for us, interject a frisson of illicit pleasure. When it comes to eating, Allen shows, there's no one way to account for taste.
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约翰•S.艾伦(John S. Allen) 美国南加州大学“栋赛夫认知神经科学成像中心”和“脑与创造力研究所”的神经人类学家。艾伦在加州大学伯克利分校完成本科和研究生学业,在奥克兰大学人类学系担任教职的数年间,他曾于日本、巴布亚新几内亚、帕劳群岛和新西兰进行心理生理学和神经分裂症演化的田野调查。1998年,艾伦开始跟随安东尼奥•达马西奥夫妇领导的认知科学研究组开展人类神经解剖学研究。
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