Research Catalog

Title

Eating culture : an anthropological guide to food / Gillian Crowther.

Author

Crowther, Gillian

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2013]

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Details

Description

xxx, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Humans have an appetite for food, and anthropology - as the study of human beings, their culture, and society - has an interest in the role of food. From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, Eating Culture is a highly engaging overview that illustrates the important role that anthropology and anthropologists have played in understanding food. Organized around the sometimes elusive concept of cuisine and the public discourse - on gastronomy, nutrition, sustainability, and culinary skills - that surrounds it, this practical guide to anthropological method and theory brings order and insight to our changing relationship with food."--pub. desc.

Subject

• Food > Social aspects
• Nutritional anthropology
• Food habits
• Food preferences
• Ethnology > Fieldwork
• Nahrung
• Ernährungsgewohnheit

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-311) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Setting the anthropological table -- Part 1. Edibility -- Omnivorousness: defining food -- Part 2. Ingredients -- Settled ingredients: domestic food production -- Mobile ingredients: global food production -- Part 3. Cooking -- Cooks and kitchens -- Recipes and dishes -- Part 4. Eating -- Eating-in: commensality and gastro-politics -- Eating-out and gastronomy -- Part 5. Digesting -- Gastro-anomie: global indigestion -- Local digestion: making the global at home -- Epilogue: leftovers to takeaway.

ISBN

• 9781442604650 (paperback)
• 1442604654 (paperback)
• 9781442607750 (bound)
• 1442607750 (bound)

OCLC

• 842884159
• SCSB-11516858

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library