Fast food/slow food : the cultural economy of the global food system / edited by Richard Wilk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilk, Richard R.

Series:

Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; v. 24.

Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food industry and trade--Social aspects--Congresses.

Food industry and trade.

Convenience foods--Social aspects--Congresses.

Convenience foods.

Cooking--Social aspects--Congresses.

Cooking.

Food habits--Social aspects--Congresses.

Food habits.

International economic integration--Social aspects--Congresses.

International economic integration.

International economic integration--Social aspects.

Food habits--Social aspects.

Cooking--Social aspects.

Convenience foods--Social aspects.

Food industry and trade--Social aspects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Cultural economy of the global food system

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2006]

Summary:

Richard Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is missing in other economic and developmental studies and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. Fast Food/Slow Food will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental anthropology, consumer behavior, nutritional sciences, economic development, environmental sustainability, agricultural economics, and globalization studies.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Food at Moderate Speeds / Sidney Mintz 3

Chapter 2 From Wild Weeds to Artisanal Cheese / Richard Wilk 13

Part II Whole Food Economies: Breaking Down Dichotomies

Chapter 3 Building Lives with Food: Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Food in Yap / James A. Egan, Michael L. Burton, Karen L. Nero 31

Chapter 4 Food for the Malian Middle Class: An Invisible Cuisine / Dolores Koenig 49

Chapter 5 Taco Bell, Maseca, and Slow Food: A Postmodern Apocalypse for Mexico's Peasant Cuisine? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher 69

Chapter 6 From Hunger Foods to Heritage Foods: Challenges to Food Localization in Lao PDR / Penny Van Esterik 83

Chapter 7 Tasting the Worlds of Yesterday and Today: Culinary Tourism and Nostalgia Foods in Post-Soviet Russia / Melissa L. Caldwell 97

Part III The Contradictions of Industrial Food

Chapter 8 Kaiten-zushi and Konbini: Japanese Food Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / Theodore C. Bestor 115

Chapter 9 Rice Ball Rivalries: Japanese Convenience Stores and the Appetite of Late Capitalism / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw 131

Chapter 10 Global Tastes, Local Contexts: An Ethnographic Account of Fast Food Expansion in San Fernando City, the Philippines / Ty Matejowsky 145

Part IV Transforming Markets and Reconnecting with Consumers

Chapter 11 From the Bottom Up: The Global Expansion of Chinese Vegetable Trade for New York City Markets / Valerie Imbruce 163

Chapter 12 The Role of Ideology in New Mexico's CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Organizations: Conflicting Visions between Growers and Members / Lois Stanford 181

Chapter 13 Artisanal Cheese and Economies of Sentiment in New England / Heather Paxson 201

Chapter 14 Fast and Slow Food in the Fast Lane: Automobility and the Australian Diet / Cathy Banwell, Jane Dixon, Sarah Hinde, Heather McIntyre 219

Chapter 15 Just Java: Roasting Fair Trade Coffee / Sarah Lyon 241.

Notes:

A collection of papers presented at a conference.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0759109141

075910915X

OCLC:

65425915

Publisher Number:

9780759109148

9780759109155