Eating culture : an anthropological guide to food / Gillian Crowther.

Author/creator Crowther, Gillian author.
Format Book
EditionSecond edition.
PublicationNorth York, Ontario, Canada ; Tonawanda, New York, USA : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Copyright Date©2018
Descriptionxxxi, 358 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: Setting the Anthropological Table -- Part One: Edibility -- 1. Omnivorousness: Classifying Food -- Part Two: Ingredients -- 2. Settled Ingredients: Domestic Food Production -- 3. Mobile Ingredients: roots, routes, and realities of industrailized agriculture -- Part Three: Cooking -- 4. Cooks and Kitchens -- 5. Recipes and Dishes -- Part Four: Eating -- 6. Eating-In: Commensality and Gastro-politics -- 7. Eating-Out and Gastronomy -- Part Five: Digesting -- 8. Global Indigestion: resetting the agenda for food security -- 9. Local Digestion: Making the Global at Home -- Epilogue: Leftovers to Takeaway.
Abstract From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture. The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions about nomadism, commercializing food, food security, and ethical consumption, including treatment of animals and the long-term environmental and health consequences of meat consumption. New feature boxes offer case studies and exercises to help highlight anthropological methods and approaches, and each chapter includes a further reading section. By considering the concept of cuisine and public discourse, Eating culture brings order and insight to our changing relationship with food.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Joyner General Stacks GN407 .C76 2018 ✔ Available Place Hold