Food and culture [electronic resource] : a reader / edited by Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik

ISBN:

9781136162039

Title:

Author:

Counihan, Carole, 1948-

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication Information:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (649 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

Front Cover; Food and Culturea Reader: Third Edition; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword from The Gastronomical Me , M.F.K. Fisher; Preface to the Third Edition; Acknowledgments; Why Food? Why Culture? Why Now? Introduction to the Third Edition Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik; Foundations; 1. Why Do We Overeat?; 2. Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption; 3. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste; 4. The Culinary Triangle; 5. The Abominations of Leviticus; 6. The Abominable Pig; 7. Industrial Food: Towards the Development of a World Cuisine

8. Time, Sugar, and SweetnessHegemony and Difference: Race, Class, and Gender; 9. More than Just the "Big Piece of Chicken": The Power of Race,Class, and Food in American Consciousness; 10. The Overcooked and Underdone: Masculinities in Japanese Food Programming; 11. Domestic Divo? Televised Treatments of Masculinity, Femininity,and Food; 12. Japanese Mothers and Obento-s: The Lunch-Box as IdeologicalState Apparatus; 13. Mexicanas' Food Voice and Differential Consciousness in the San Luis Valley of Colorado; 14. Feeding Lesbigay Families

15. Thinking Race Through Corporeal Feminist Theory: Divisions and Intimacies at the Minneapolis Farmers' Market16. The Raw and the Rotten: Punk Cuisine; Consumption and Embodiment; 17. Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women; 18. Not Just "a White Girl's Thing": The Changing Face of Food and Body Image Problems; 19. De-medicalizing Anorexia: Opening a New Dialogue; 20. Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men's Fitness Magazines; 21. Cooking Skills, the Senses, and Memory: The Fate of Practical Knowledge

22. Not "From Scratch": Thai Food Systems and "Public Eating"23. Rooting Out the Causes of Disease: Why Diabetes is SoCommon Among Desert Dwellers; 24. Between Obesity and Hunger: The Capitalist Food Industry; Food and Globalization; 25. "As Mother Made It": The Cosmopolitan Indian Family,"Authentic" Food, and the Construction of Cultural Utopia; 26. "Real Belizean Food": Building Local Identity in the Transnational Caribbean; 27. Let's Cook Thai: Recipes for Colonialism; 28. Slow Food and the Politics of "Virtuous Globalization"

29. Taco Bell, Maseca, and Slow Food: A Postmodern Apocalypsefor Mexico's Peasant Cuisine?30. Food Workers as Individual Agents of Culinary Globalization:Pizza and Pizzaioli in Japan; 31. Of Hamburger and Social Space: Consuming McDonald's in Beijing; 32. On the Move for Food: Three Women Behind the Tomato's Journey; Challenging, Contesting, and Transforming the Food System; 33. The Chain Never Stops; 34. Fast Food/Organic Food: Refl exive Tastes and the Making of"Yuppie Chow"; 35. The Politics of Breastfeeding: An Advocacy Update

36. The Political Economy of Food Aid in an Era of Agricultural Biotechnology

Subject Term:

Food -- Social aspects.

Food habits.

Added Author:

Counihan, Carole, 1948-

Van Esterik, Penny

Format:

Books

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.

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Summary

The classic book that helped to define and legitimize the field of food and culture studies is now available, with major revisions, in a specially affordable e-book version (978-0-203-07975-1).　

The third edition includes 40 original essays and reprints of previously published classics under 5 Sections: FOUNDATIONS, HEGEMONY AND DIFFERENCE, CONSUMPTION AND EMBODIMENT, FOOD AND GLOBALIZATION, and CHALLENGING, CONTESTING, AND TRANSFORMING THE FOOD SYSTEM.

17 of the 40 articles included are either, new to this edition, rewritten by their original authors, or edited by Counihan and van Esterik.　

A bank of test items applicable to each article in the book is available to instructors interested in selecting this edition for course use. Simply send an e.mail to the publisher at companionaccess@informa.com.

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Author Notes

Carole Counihanis Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Millersville University in Pennsylvania and editor-in-chief of Food and Foodways . Her earlier books include Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Florence , Food in the USA , and The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power .

Penny Van Esterikis Professor of Anthropology at York University in Toronto, Canada where she teaches nutritional anthropology, in addition to doing research on food and globalization in Southeast Asia. She is a founding member of WABA (World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action) and writes on infant and young child feeding, including her earlier book, Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy .