Food in the social order : studies of food and festivities in three American communities / Mary Douglas, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--United States.

Food habits.

Feeding Behavior.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Feeding Behavior.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©1984.

Summary:

Abstract: Three studies in food anthropology link patterns of social change and social integration to the eating patterns and food practices. The three subcultures that were studied are the Oglala Sioux Indians in South Dakota, southern households in Bakers County, North Carolina, and an Italian-American community in suburban Philadelphia. The text is introduced by a discussion of the standard social user of food and the interpretation of food patterns influenced by social behavior, and closes with a discussion of mathematical models and procedures used to assess calendrical information on food taking behavior. The study of the Oglala Sioux focuses n the importance of food in defining ethnic identity. The Italian-American study describes how gastronomic expressions of ethnicity persist. The North Carolina study evaluates the food practices of blacks and whites in the same socioeconomic brackets in a rural southern community. (wz).

Contents:

Standard social uses of food : introduction / Mary Douglas

Metaphysical aspects of an Oglala food system / William K. Powers and Marla M.N. Powers

Sociocultural dynamics and food habits in a southern community / Tony Larry Whitehead

Meal formats, meal cycles, and menu negotiation in the maintenance of an Italian-American community / Judith G. Goode, Karen Curtis, and Janet Theophano

Measurement of calendrical information in food-taking behavior / Jonathan L. Gross.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.

ISBN:

0871542102

9780871542106

OCLC:

11238221