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Food and Culture: A Reader

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Food touches everything important to people: it marks social differences and strengthens social bonds. Common to all peoples, yet 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. Articles reveal how food habits and beliefs both present a microcosm of any culture and also contribute to our understanding of human behavior. Crossing many disciplinary boundaries, this reader includes the perspectives of anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, and sociology.

The reader starts out by illustrating food's ability to convey symbolic meaning and communicates about a wide range of subjects. Next, the articles draw attention to how the practices of giving, receiving and refusing food initiate, solidify or rupture social bonds. Essays exploring the relation between body image, eating and sexuality in different societies give particular attention to the special and contradictory relation between women and food. Also demonstrated is the relation between the commodification of food, food industries, political power and colonial dominance.

Contributors include: Roland Barthes, Susan Bordo, Carolyn Walker Bynum, M.F.K. Fisher, Anna Freud, Jack Goody, Claude Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, and Elisa J. Sobo.

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.

Synopsis:

Food touches everything important to people, making social differences and strengthening social bonds. Common to all peoples, food can nonetheless 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 with stellar contributions by M.F.K. Fisher, Roland Barthes, Carolyn Walker, Claude Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, and many others.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780415917100
Editor:
Van Esterik, Penny
Author:
Van Esterik, Penny
Author:
Counihan, Carole
Publisher:
Routledge
Location:
New York
Subject:
Food
Subject:
Anthropology - Cultural
Subject:
Anthropology
Subject:
Food habits
Subject:
Culture
Subject:
Alimentation
Subject:
Habitudes alimentaires
Subject:
Anthropology - General
Subject:
ALIMENTAðCäAO
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:
no. 226
Publication Date:
August 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
432
Dimensions:
10.02x7.02x.91 in. 1.62 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , 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.
"Synopsis" by , Food touches everything important to people, making social differences and strengthening social bonds. Common to all peoples, food can nonetheless 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 with stellar contributions by M.F.K. Fisher, Roland Barthes, Carolyn Walker, Claude Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, and many others.
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