Everyone eats : understanding food and culture / E.N. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Eugene Newton, Jr., 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits.

Food preferences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : NYU Press, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Everyone Eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rise become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons why humans eat what they do, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic. E. N. Anderson explains the economics of food in the globalization era and food's relationship to religion, medicine, and ethnicity. He offers suggestions on how to end hunger, starvation, and malnutrition. This thoroughly updated second edition incorporates the latest food scholarship, most notably recognizing the impact of sustainable eating advocacy and the state of food security in the world today. Anderson also brings more insight than ever before into the historical and scientific underpinnings of our food customs, fleshing this out with fifteen new and original photographs from his own extensive fieldwork. A perennial classic in the anthropology of food. Everyone Eats feeds our need to understand human ecology by explaining the ways that cultures, biology, and political systems structure the edible environment. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Obligatory Omnivores 13

2 Human Nutritional Needs 46

3 More Needs Than One 75

4 The Senses: Taste, Smell, and the Adapted Mind 85

5 Basics: Environment and Economy 100

6 Food and Traditional Medicine 119

7 Food as Pleasure 137

8 Food Classification and Communication 154

9 Me, Myself, and the Others: Food as Social Marker 171

10 Food and Religion 188

11 Change 199

12 Foods and Borders: Ethnicities, Cuisines, and Boundary Crossings 225

13 Feeding the World 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Anderson, E. N. Everyone eats : understanding food and culture.

ISBN:

9780814785768

OCLC:

867930759

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.