Food and the self : consumption, production and material culture /
We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people strive to form meaningful selves throu...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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| Series: | Materializing culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Foodies: Material Culture and the Self in Postindustrial Society; 1 Moralities of Productive Leisure and Material Culture; 2 Learning Things: Material Media and Gastronomic Education; 3 Consuming Things: Material Cultures and Moralities of Consumption; 4 Dining Out: Restaurants, Serious Consumption, and Molecular Gastronomy; 5 Shopping: Slow Food, Ethical Consumption, and the Morality of Quality; 6 Producing Things: Material Media and Moralities of Production; 7 Cooking: Manual Leisure and Material Production; 8 Blogging: Digital Leisure and Material Media ProductionAfterword Materializing Moral Selves; Bibliography; Index.