1 option
The food and folklore reader / edited by Lucy M. Long.
Van Pelt Library GT2850 .F6624 2015
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food--Cross-cultural studies.
- Food.
- Food habits--Cross-cultural studies.
- Food habits.
- Folklore--Methodology.
- Folklore.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 467 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, 2015.
- Summary:
- The first comprehensive introduction to folklore methods and concepts relevant to food. Mapping the study of food through key sources in folkloristics, the forty readings span the entire discipline: from seminal works on identity and aesthetics, to innovative scholarship on contemporary food issues such as food security and culinary tourism.--COVER.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Foundations : History, definitions, and methodologies
- pt. II. Food in groups, community, and identity
- pt. III. Food as art, symbol, and ritual
- pt. IV. Food as communication, performance, and power
- pt. V. Food in public and applied folklore.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780857856999
- 9780857857231
- 0857857231
- 0857856995
- OCLC:
- 861955314
- Publisher Number:
- 99966739079
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.