Conversations With Food (Series in Sociology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1648890768 ISBN 13: 9781648890765

Publisher: Vernon Press, 2020

Synopsis

Conversations With Food offers readers an array of essays revealing the power of food (and its absence) to transform relationships between the human and non-human realms; to define national, colonial, and postcolonial cultures; to help instantiate race, gender, and class relations; and to serve as the basis for policymaking. Food functions in these contexts as items in religious or secular law, as objects with which to bargain or over which to fight, as literary trope, and as a way to improve or harm health—individual or collective. The anthology ranges from Ancient Greece to the posthuman fairy underworld; from the codifying of French culinary heritage to the strategic marketing of 100-calorie snacks; from the European famine after the Second World War to the lush and exotic cuisines of culinary tourism today. Conversations With Food will engage anyone interested in discovering the disciplinary breadth and depth of food studies. The anthology is ideally suited for introductory and advanced courses in food studies, as it includes essays in a range of humanities and social science disciplines, and each author draws cross-disciplinary linkages between their own work and other essays in the volume. This thematic and conceptual intercalation, when read with the editors’ introduction, makes the collection an exceptionally strong representation of the field of food studies.

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About the Authors

Dorothy Chansky is Professor of Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism in the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. She is the author of Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience; Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre; and co-editor of Food and Theatre on the World Stage.

Sarah W. Tracy is Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor of the History of Medicine and Food Studies at the University of Oklahoma Honors College. She is author of Alcoholism in America from Reconstruction to Prohibition and co-editor of Altering American Consciousness: The History of Alcohol and Drugs in the United States, 1800-2000.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vernon Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648890768
• ISBN 13: 9781648890765
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Chansky Dorothy