Food and culture : a reader /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Counihan, Carole, 1948-, Van Esterik, Penny
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2008.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
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.