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The food and folklore reader /

The first comprehensive introduction to folklore methods and concepts relevant to food. Mapping the study of food through key sources in folkloristics, the forty readings span the entire discipline: from seminal works on identity and aesthetics, to innovative scholarship on contemporary food issues...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Long, Lucy M., 1956- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, 2015.
Subjects:
Food > Cross-cultural studies.
Food habits > Cross-cultural studies.
Folklore > Methodology.
Food.
Food habits.
Matvanor.
Mat > sociala aspekter.
Cross-cultural studies.
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Summary:The first comprehensive introduction to folklore methods and concepts relevant to food. Mapping the study of food through key sources in folkloristics, the forty readings span the entire discipline: from seminal works on identity and aesthetics, to innovative scholarship on contemporary food issues such as food security and culinary tourism.--COVER.
Physical Description:vii, 467 pages ; 26 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780857857231
0857857231
9780857856999
0857856995