Food consumption in global perspective : essays in the anthropology of food in honour of Jack Goody /

"The globalization of food consumption has often been equated with the loss of culinary traditions and the homogenization of cuisines. By contrast, the anthropologists, historians and sociologists contributing to this collection reveal both rapid changes and also profound and sometimes surprisi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Klein, Jakob (Editor), Murcott, Anne (Editor), Goody, Jack (honouree.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:	Consumption and public life.
Subjects:	Food habits > Cross-cultural studies. Food consumption > Cross-cultural studies. HISTORY / Social History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes. Nahrungsaufnahme. Kochen. Tradition. Anthropologie.
Online Access:	Cover image

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Jack Goody
1. Introduction: Cooking, Cuisine and Class and the Anthropology of Food / Jakob A. Klein
2. Meat: A Cultural Biography in (South) China / James L. Watson
3. From Fasting to Fast Food in Kumasi, Ghana / Gracia Clark
4. Civilizing Tastes: From Caste to Class in South Indian Foodways / James Staples
5. The Fast and the Fusion: Class, Colonialism and the Remaking of Comida Tipica in Highland Ecuador / Emma-Jayne Abbots
6. The High and the Low in the Making of a Portuguese National Cuisine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / José Manuel Sobral
7. Indigestion in the Long Nineteenth Century: Aspects of English Taste and Anxiety, 1800-1950 / Stephen Mennell
8. Eating Out Bangladeshi-Style: Catering and Class in Diasporic East London / Johan Pottier
9. The Taste for Milk in Modern China (1865-1937) / Françoise Sabban
10. Drink, Meals and Social Boundaries / Sami Zubaida.