The cultural politics of food and eating : a reader /
Contributor(s): Watson, James L
| Caldwell, Melissa L.
Series: Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 8.Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005Description: xii, 320 p. ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0631230920; 9780631230922:; 9780631230922; 0631230939 (pbk.); 9780631230939 (pbk.).Subject(s): Food habits -- Political aspects | Food habits | Food habits -- Economic aspects | Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies | Food preferences | Food industry and trade | Food industry and trade -- Political aspects | Politics and culture | Consumption (Economics) | GlobalizationDDC classification: 394.12 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 394.1094 MEN All manners of food : eating and taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the present / | 394.1094 SCH Food, drink and identity : cooking, eating and drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages / | 394.12 AND Everyone eats : understanding food and culture / | 394.12 WAT The cultural politics of food and eating : a reader / | 394.12 WIL First bite : how we learn to eat / | 394.120941 CAP Food, health, and identity / | 394.120941 CAP Food, health, and identity / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / James L. Watson and Melissa L. Caldwell -- pt. 1. Food and globalization. How sushi went global / Theodore C. Bestor -- French beans for the masses : a modern historical geography of food in Burkina Faso / Susanne Freidberg -- Fresh demand : the consumption of Chilean produce in the United States / Walter L. Goldfrank -- Coca-Cola : a black sweet drink from Trinidad / Daniel Miller -- China's Big Mac attack / James L. Watson -- Of hamburger and social space : consuming McDonald's in Beijing / Yunxiang Yan -- pt. 2. Gentrification, yuppification, and domesticating tastes. Children's food and Islamic dietary restrictions in Xi'an / Maris Boyd Gillette -- The rise of yuppie coffees and the reimagination of class in the United States / William Roseberry -- Crafting grand cru chocolates in contemporary France / Susan J. Terrio -- Globalized childhood? : Kentucky Fried Chicken in Beijing / Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr. -- Domesticating the French fry : McDonald's and consumerism in Moscow / Melissa L. Caldwell -- "India shopping" : Indian grocery stores and transnational configurations of belonging / Purnima Mankekar -- pt. 3. The political economy of food. Food and the counterculture : a story of bread and politics / Warren Belasco -- Industrial tortillas and folkloric Pepsi : the nutritional consequences of hybrid cuisines in Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- Food, hunger, and the state / Susan Brownell -- The bakers of Bernburg and the logics of communism and capitalism / Hans Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler -- The global food fight / Robert Paarlberg -- Half-lives and healthy bodies : discourses on "contaminated" food and healing in post-Chernobyl Ukraine / Sarah Drue Phillips -- Mad cow mysteries / Harriet Ritvo.
Rather than replicating an anthology of classic writings on food or the anthropology of food, this title addresses the study of food in relation to larger themes that are emerging in social anthropology: globalization, capitalism, 'new' market economies, and consumption practices.