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Synopsis
The articles presented in this text explore the social, symbolic and political-economic role of food in diverse cultures including the practices of giving, receiving and refusing food and the connections between body image, eating, gender and sexuality.
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"The editors of this "Reader have compiled an excellent group of papers." -"Sara A. Quandt, Wake Forest University School of Medicine ""Food and Culture: A Reader, a collection of essays about what and how we eat... is in spots a delicious treat." Reading About Eating -Times (Bay City, MI), Jan. 20, 1998 "The reader should read more than one or two pieces before passing judgement; subject matter and clarity vary greatly. But certainly everyone can find something to eat on this literary smorgasbord... most will find interesting the chapter on "Industrial Foods."" The Culinary Bookshelf -Culinary Historians of New York, Winter 1998 Vol.11 No.2 ." . . a delicious treat . . . It's scholarly, annotated and dense, and fun reading." -"Kalamazoo Gazette, 20 January 1998 ." . . a delicious treat . . . It's scholarly, annotated and dense, and fun reading." -"New Orleans Times-Picayune, 10 December 1997
From the Back Cover
Food touches everything important to people: it marks social difference and strengthens social bonds. Common to all peoples, it can signify very different things from table to table.
Food and Culture takes a global look at the social, symbolic, and political-economic role of food. The stellar contributors to this reader examine some of the meanings of food and eating across cultures, with particular attention to how men and women define themselves differently through their foodways. Crossing many subjects, this innovative, first-of-its-kind in the field includes the perspectives of anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, politics, and sociology. This is the classic text in the field, updated for the first time in a decade, and hailed as the "bible" in the field. A "must" use for any course on the anthropology or sociology of food.
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Food and Culture: A Reader
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Routledge, 1997
ISBN 10: 0415917093
ISBN 13: 9780415917094
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