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The rituals of dinner : the origins, evolution, eccentricities, and meaning of table manners / Margaret Visser

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Nueva York : Penguin books, 1992Description: xiii, 432 páginas ; 21 cmContent type:
  • texto, imagen fija
Media type:
  • sin mediación
Carrier type:
  • volumen
ISBN:
  • 9780140170795
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BJ2041  V57 1992
Contents:
Introduction -- Behaving -- the artificial cannibal -- Ritual -- Feasting and Sacrifice -- Learning to Behave -- Bringing children up -- Inhibitions -- Aspirations -- The pleasure of your company -- Company -- Hosts and guests -- Invitations -- Coming right in -- Taking our places -- Dinner is served -- The first bite -- Taking note of our surroundings -- The prospect before us -- Fingers -- Chopsticks -- Knives, forks, spoons -- Sequence – Helpings -- Carving -- The red, the white, and the gold -- Table talk -- Feeding, feasts, and females -- All gone -- No offence -- Pollution -- The rules and regulations of the mouth -- The proprieties of posture and demeanour -- Postscript: how rude are we? -- References -- Bibliography – Index.
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Libros Libros Mediateca Bibliográfica BJ2041 V57 1992 Ej. 1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Ej. 1 Available 15810

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Introduction -- Behaving -- the artificial cannibal -- Ritual -- Feasting and Sacrifice -- Learning to Behave -- Bringing children up -- Inhibitions -- Aspirations -- The pleasure of your company -- Company -- Hosts and guests -- Invitations -- Coming right in -- Taking our places -- Dinner is served -- The first bite -- Taking note of our surroundings -- The prospect before us -- Fingers -- Chopsticks -- Knives, forks, spoons -- Sequence – Helpings -- Carving -- The red, the white, and the gold -- Table talk -- Feeding, feasts, and females -- All gone -- No offence -- Pollution -- The rules and regulations of the mouth -- The proprieties of posture and demeanour -- Postscript: how rude are we? -- References -- Bibliography – Index.

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