Food Consumption in Global Perspective

Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-45974-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3164 g

Reihe: Consumption and Public Life

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murcott, A.

Klein, J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Jack Goody 1. Introduction: Cooking, Cuisine and Class and the Anthropology of Food; Jakob A. Klein 2. Meat: A Cultural Biography in (South) China; James L. Watson 3. From Fasting to Fast Food in Kumasi, Ghana; Gracia Clark 4. Civilising Tastes: From Caste to Class in South Indian Foodways; James Staples 5. The Fast and the Fusion: Class, Colonialism and the Remaking of Comida Tipica in Highland Ecuador; Emma-Jayne Abbots 6. The High and the Low in the Making of a Portuguese National Cuisine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Jose Sobral 7. Indigestion in the Long Nineteenth Century: Aspects of English Taste and Anxiety, 1800-1950; Stephen Mennell 8. Eating Out Bangladeshi-Style: Catering and Class in Diasporic East London; Johan Pottier 9. The Taste for Milk in Modern China (1865-1937); Francoise Sabban 10. Drink, Meals and Social Boundaries; Sami Zubaida

Über Autor(innen)

Emma-Jayne Abbots, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK Gracia Clark, Indiana University, USA Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin, Ireland Johan Pottier, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Françoise Sabban, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France José Manuel Sobral, University of Lisbon, Portugal James Staples, Brunel University, UK James L. Watson, Harvard University, USA Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck, University of London, UK