Food and Culture: A Reader

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Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik
Routledge, 7 dec. 2012 - 648 sidor

The classic book that helped to define and legitimize the field of food and culture studies is now available, with major revisions, in a specially affordable e-book version (978-0-203-07975-1).

The third edition includes 40 original essays and reprints of previously published classics under 5 Sections: FOUNDATIONS, HEGEMONY AND DIFFERENCE, CONSUMPTION AND EMBODIMENT, FOOD AND GLOBALIZATION, and CHALLENGING, CONTESTING, AND TRANSFORMING THE FOOD SYSTEM.

17 of the 40 articles included are either, new to this edition, rewritten by their original authors, or edited by Counihan and van Esterik.

A bank of test items applicable to each article in the book is available to instructors interested in selecting this edition for course use. Simply send an e.mail to the publisher at companionaccess@informa.com.

 

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Why Food? Why Culture? Why Now? Introduction to the Third Edition Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik
1
Foundations
17
Race Class and Gender
105
Consumption and Embodiment
243
Food and Globalization
353
Challenging Contesting and Transforming the Food System
483
Contributors
602
CreditLines
609
Index
614
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Om författaren (2012)

Carole Counihan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Millersville University in Pennsylvania and editor-in-chief of Food and Foodways. Her earlier books include Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Florence, Food in the USA, and The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power.

Penny Van Esterik is Professor of Anthropology at York University in Toronto, Canada where she teaches nutritional anthropology, in addition to doing research on food and globalization in Southeast Asia. She is a founding member of WABA (World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action) and writes on infant and young child feeding, including her earlier book, Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy.

Bibliografisk information

TitelFood and Culture: A Reader
RedaktörerCarole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik
Utgåva3, illustrerad, omarbetad
UtgivareRoutledge, 2012
ISBN1136162038, 9781136162039
Längd648 sidor
  
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