Food and culture : a reader / edited by Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Counihan, Carole, 1948-

Van Esterik, Penny

James Samuel Blank Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Social aspects.

Food.

Food habits.

Physical Description:

xiv, 631 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

For this third edition of their reader introducing the anthropology of food and culture, Counihan (emerita, anthropology, Millersville U., US) and Van Esterik (anthropology, York U., Canada) have maintained the aim of the first two readers: to provide a comprehensive introduction to the field through the presentation of classic foundational pieces, a range of outstanding articles reflecting diverse perspectives and topics, and cutting edge new work. They have therefore retained most of the foundational articles from the earlier editions, as well as more recent contributions addressing such topics as food and gender, consumption and meaning, globalization, and political economy, and have added articles on new topics, including farmers' markets, community food security, the complexities of the organic food market, democracy and food justice, cooking skill and its meanings, gender in food television, and packaged foods in the South Asian diaspora. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Foreword from The gastronomical me / M.F.K. Fisher

Why food? Why culture? Why now?: introduction to the third edition / Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik

[I.] Foundations : Why do we overeat? / Margaret Mead

Toward a psychosociology of contemporary food consumption / Roland Barthes

Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste / Pierre Bourdieu

The culinary triangle / Claude Lévi-Strauss

The abominations of Leviticus / Mary Douglas

The abominable pig / Marvin Harris

Industrial food: towards the development of a world cuisine / Jack Goody

Time, sugar, and sweetness / Sidney W. Mintz

[II.] Hegemony and difference: race, glass, and gender : More than just the "big piece of chicken': the power of race, class, and food in American consciousness / Psyche Williams-Forson

The overcooked and underdone: masculinities in Japanese food programming / T.J.M. Holden

Domestic divo? Televised treatments of masculinity, femininity, and food / Rebecca Swenson

Japanese mothers and obentōs: the lunch-box as ideological state apparatus / Anne Allison

Mexicanas' food voice and differential consciousness in the San Luis Valley of Colorado / Carole Counihan

Feeding lesbigay families / Christopher Carrington

Thinking race through corporeal feminist theory: divisions and intimacies at the Minneapolis farmers' market / Rachel Slocum

The raw and the rotten: punk cuisine / Dylan Clark

[III.] Consumption and embodiment : Fast, feast, and flesh: the religious significance of food to medieval women / Caroline Walker Bynum

Not just "a White girl's thing": the changing face of food and body image problems / Susan Bordo

De-medicalizing anorexia: opening a new dialogue / Richard A. O'Connor

Feeding hard bodies: food and masculinities in men's fitness magazines / Fabio Parasecoli

Cooking skills, the senses, and memory: the fate of Practical knowledge / David Sutton

Not "from scratch": Thai food systems and "public eating" / Gisèle Yasmeen

Rooting out the causes of disease: why diabetes is so common among desert dwellers / Gary Paul Nabhan

Between obesity and hunger: the capitalist food industry / Robert Albritton

[IV.] Food and globalization : "As mother made it": the cosmopolitan Indian family, "Authentic" food, and the construction of cultural utopia / Tulasi Srinivas

"Real Belizean food": building local identity in the transnational Caribbean / Richard Wilk

Let's cook Thai: recipes for colonialism / Lisa Heldke

Slow food and the politics of "virtuous globalization" / Alison Leitch

Taco Bell, Maseca, slow food: a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jefferey M. Pilcher

Food workers as individual agents of culinary globalization: pizza and pizzaioli in Japan / Rossella Ceccarini

Of hamburger and social space: consuming McDonald's in Beijing Yungxiang Yan

On the move for food: three women behind the tomato's journey / Deborah Barndt

[V.] Challenging, contesting, and transforming the food system : The chain never stops / Eric Schlosser

Fast food/organic food: reflexive tastes and the making of "yuppie chow" / Julie Guthman

The politics of breastfeeding: an advocacy update / Penny Van Esterik

The political economy of food aid in an era of agricultural biotechnology / Jennifer Clapp

The political economy of obesity: the fat pay all / Alice Julier

Want amid plenty: from hunger to inequality / Janet Poppendieck

Community food security "for us, by us": the nation of Islam and the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church / Priscilla McCutcheon

Learning democracy through food justice movements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.

ISBN:

0415521041

9780415521031

0415521033

9780415521048

9780203079751

0203079752

OCLC:

794973779

Publisher Number:

99951607826