num_pages: 624
description: Food touches everything important to it marks social difference and strengthens social bonds. Common to all people it can signify very different things from table to table. Food and Culture takes a global look at the social symbolic and political-economic role of food. The stellar contributors to this reader examine some of the meanings of food and eating across cultures with particular attention to how men and women define themselves differently through their foodways. Crossing many subjects this innovative first-of-its-kind in the field includes the perspectives of anthropology history psychology philosophy politics and sociology. This is the classic text in the field updated for the first time in a decade and hailed as the bible in the field. A must use for any course on the anthropology or sociology of food. This book comes with a companion website which you can visit at www.routledge.com/textbooks/978041597...
language: English
title: Food and Culture: A Reader
publisher: Routledge