Food and culture : a reader /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The problem of changing food habits / Margaret Mead
- 2. Toward a psychosociology of contemporary food consumption / Roland Barthes
- 3. The culinary triangle / Claude Lévi-Strauss
- 4. Deciphering a meal / Mary Douglas
- 5. The abominable pig / Marvin Harris
- 6. Nourishing arts / Michel De Certeau, Luce Giard
- 7. The recipe, the prescription, and the experiment / Jack Goody
- 8. Time, sugar, and sweetness / Sidney W. Mintz
- 9. Anorexia nervosa and its differential diagnosis / Hilde Bruch
- 10. Fast, feast, and flesh : the religious significance of food to medieval women / Caroline Walker Bynum
- 11. The appetite as voice / Joan Jacobs Brumberg
- 12. Anorexia nervosa : psychopathology as the crystallization of culture / Susan Bordo
- 13. Feeding hard bodies : food and masculinities in men's fitness magazines / Fabio Parasecoli
- 14. The overcooked and underdone : masculinities in Japanese food programming / T.J.M. Holden
- 15. Japanese mothers and Obentōs : the lunch box as ideological state apparatus / Anne Allison
- 16. Conflict and deference / Marjorie DeVault
- 17. Feeding lesbigay families / Christopher Carrington
- 18. How to make a national cuisine : cookbooks in contemporary India / Arjun Appadurai
- 19. "Real Belizean food" : building local identity in the transnational Caribbean / Rich Wilk
- 20. Let's cook Thai : recipes for colonialism / Lisa Heldke
- 21. More than just the 'big piece of chicken' : the power of race, class, and food in American consciousness" / Psyche Williams-Forson
- 22. Mexicanas' food voice and differential consciousness in the San Luis Valley of Colorado / Carole Counihan
- 23. Rooting out the causes of disease : why diabetes is so common among desert dwellers / Gary Paul Nabhan
- 24. Slow food and the politics of pork fat : Italian food and European identity / Alison Leitch
- 25. Taco Bell, Maseca, and slow food : a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher
- 26. The raw and the rotten : punk cuisine / Dylan Clark
- 27. Salad days : a visual study of children's food culture / Melissa Salazar, Gail Feenstra, Jeri Ohmart
- 28. The chain never stops / Eric Schlosser
- 29. Whose "choice"? : "flexible" women workers in the tomato food chain / Deborah Barndt
- 30. The politics of breastfeeding : an advocacy update / Penny Van Esterik
- 31. The political economy of obesity : the fat pay all / Alice Julier
- 32. Of hamburger and social space : consuming McDonald's in Beijing / Yunxiang Yan
- 33. "Plastic bag housewives" and postmodern restaurants? : public and private in Bangkok's foodscape / Gisèle Yasmeen
- 34. The political economy of food aid in an era of agricultural biotechnology / Jennifer Clapp
- 35. Street credit : the cultural politics of African street children's hunger / Karen Coen Flynn
- 36. Want amid plenty : from hunger to inequality / Janet Poppendieck.