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Feasts, Fasts, Famine: Food for Thought: 0002 (Berg Occasional Papers in Anthropology) - Softcover

Book 2 of 2: Berg Occasional Papers in Anthropology

Caplan, Pat; Caplan, Patricia

 
9780854963843: Feasts, Fasts, Famine: Food for Thought: 0002 (Berg Occasional Papers in Anthropology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0854963847 ISBN 13: 9780854963843
Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

This study deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and moral issues. Through an examination of a wide range of material drawn from anthropology, history, literature and political economy, the author discusses the relationship between food and entitlement, gender, notions of the body and development. Food is shown to be a powerful metaphor for our sense of self, our social and political relations, our cosmology and our global system.

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About the Author

Pat Caplan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

From the Back Cover

In this Lecture, I shall seek to do two things. One is to show how an anthropological approach can give us particular kinds of understanding about people's food choices.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0854963847
ISBN 13 
9780854963843
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
36