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FOOD CONSUMPTION IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
ESSAYS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOOD IN HONOUR OF JACK GOODY |
| By: |
Jakob A. Klein (Editor), Anne Murcott (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£65.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1137326417 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781137326416 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
24 July, 2014 |
| Series: |
Consumption and Public Life |
| Description: |
With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food. |
| Synopsis: |
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 surprising continuities in local food consumption practices in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and use these to shed light on shifting social boundaries and cultural identities. The volume combines ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, situating local practices of eating, cooking and sharing food within transnational processes and contexts. In so doing, the volume celebrates and furthers approaches developed in Jack Goody's seminal 1982 book, Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology. With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, the book provides a truly global perspective on the social dynamics of food consumption in the modern world. |
| Illustrations: |
2 black & white halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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