Food Consumption in Global Perspective [electronic resource] : Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody /
Klein, J.editor.
Murcott, A.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword by Jack Goody; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Cooking, Cuisine and Class and the Anthropology of Food; 2 Meat: A Cultural Biography in (South) China; 3 From Fasting to Fast Food in Kumasi, Ghana; 4 Civilizing Tastes: From Caste to Class in South Indian Foodways; 5 The Fast and the Fusion: Class, Colonialism and the Remaking of Comida Típica in Highland Ecuador; 6 The High and the Low in the Making of a Portuguese National Cuisine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
7 Indigestion in the Long Nineteenth Century: Aspects of English Taste and Anxiety, 1800-19508 Eating Out Bangladeshi-Style: Catering and Class in Diasporic East London; 9 The Taste for Milk in Modern China (1865-1937); 10 Drink, Meals and Social Boundaries; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Anthropology.
Social history.
Economic sociology.
Ethnology.
Cultural studies.
Anthropology.
Social History.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Cultural Studies.