Full name: Food and Culture: A Reader

Author: Carole Counihan Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Food, Anthropology, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780415977777 9780415521048 0415977770 0415521041

Food touches everything important to people: it marks social difference and strengthens social bonds. Common to all people, it can signify very different things from table to table. Food and Culture takes a global look at the social, symbolic, and political-economic role of food. The stellar contributors to this reader examine some of the meanings of food and eating across cultures, with particular attention to how men and women define themselves differently through their foodways. Crossing many subjects, this innovative, first-of-its-kind in the field includes the perspectives of anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, politics, and sociology. This is the classic text in the field, updated for the first time in a decade, and hailed as the "bible" in the field. A must use for any course on the anthropology or sociology of food. This book comes with a companion website, which you can visit at www.routledge.com/textbooks/978041597... Similar books: Slow Food by Carlo Petrini The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by Sandor Ellix Katz Unmentionable Cuisine by Calvin W. Schwabe Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser Good to Eat by Marvin Harris It Must've Been Something I Ate by Jeffrey Steingarten A Movable Feast by Kenneth F. Kiple The United States of Arugula by David Kamp Eating for England by Nigel Slater Cooked by Michael Pollan Grub by Anna Lappe The Table Comes First by Adam Gopnik Choice Cuts by Mark Kurlansky A History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat Cookoff by Amy Sutherland Extra Virginity by Tom Mueller Yanomamo by Napoleon A. Chagnon Cheese and Culture by Paul S. Kindstedt The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea by Annette B. Weiner Milk by Anne Mendelson