The handbook of food and anthropology [electronic resource] / edited by Jakob A. Klein and James L. Watson.

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Other Authors: Klein, Jakob (Editor, Contributor)
Watson, James L. (Editor, Contributor)
Herzfeld, Michael, 1947- (Contributor)
Gillette, Maris Boyd (Contributor)
Staples, James, 1966- (Contributor)
Bahloul, Joëlle, 1951- (Contributor)
Abbots, Emma-Jayne (Contributor)
Avieli, Nir, 1966- (Contributor)
Pottier, Johan (Contributor)
Bray, Francesca (Contributor)
Patico, Jennifer (Contributor)
Lozada, Eriberto P. (Contributor)
Wiley, Andrea S., 1962- (Contributor)
Smart, Josephine (Contributor)
Smart, Alan (Contributor)
Paxson, Heather, 1968- (Contributor)
Jung, Yuson, 1972- (Contributor)
Watson, Rubie S. (Rubie Sharon), 1945- (Contributor)
Sutton, David E., 1963- (Contributor)
Hull, Elizabeth, 1982- (Contributor)
Luetchford, Peter (Contributor)
West, Harry G. (Contributor)
Caldwell, Melissa L., 1969- (Contributor)
Grasseni, Cristina (Contributor)
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Subjects:
Nutritional anthropology.
Food habits > Cross-cultural studies.
Food consumption > Cross-cultural studies.
Food > Social aspects.
Genre:
Cross-cultural studies.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2015 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2015 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Anthropology, food and modern life / James L. Watson and Jakob A. Klein
  • Part one: Food, self and other. Culinary stereotypes: The gustatory politics of gastro-essentialism / Michael Herzfeld ; Muslim foodways / Maris Gillette ; Food, commensality and caste in South Asia / James Staples ; Jewish foods at the turn of the twenty-first century / Joelle Bahloul ; Approaches to food and migration: Rootedness, being and belonging / Emma-Jayne Abbots ; Local food, local specialties and local identity / Nir Avieli
  • Part two: Food security, nutrition and food safety. Observer, critic, activist: Anthropological encounters with food insecurity / Johan Pottier ; Feeding farmers and feeding the nation in modern Malaysia: The political economy of food and taste / Francesca Bray ; Children's food / Jennifer Patico and Eriberto P. Lozada Jr. ; Cow's milk as children's food: Insights from India and the United States / Andrea S. Wiley ; Food, borders and disease / Josephine Smart and Alan Smart ; Rethinking food and its eaters: Opening the black boxes of safety and nutrition / Heather Paxson ; Food provisioning and foodways in postsocialist societies: Food as medium for social trust and global belonging / Yuson Jung ; Feeding the revolution: Public mess halls and coercive commensality in Maoist China / James L. Watson
  • Part three: Food as craft, industry and ethics. Church cookbooks: Changing foodways on the American prairie / Rubie Watson ; The Anthropology of cooking / David Sutton ; Supermarket expansion informal retail and food acquisition strategies: An example from rural South Africa / Elizabeth Hull ; Ethical consumption: The moralities and politics of food / Peter Luetchford ; Artisanal foods and the cultural economy: Perspectives on craft, heritage, authenticity and reconnection / Harry G. West ; Practising food anthropology: Moving food studies from the classroom to the boardroom / Melissa L. Caldwell
  • Afterward / Cristina Grasseni.