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Food and culture : a reader / edited by Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1997.Description: 424 p. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 0415917093
  • 0415917107 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.1 COU
Partial contents:
The changing significance of food / Margaret Mead -- Toward a psychosociology of contemporary food consumption / Roland Barthes -- The culinary triangle / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Deciphering a meal / Mary Douglas -- The semiotics of food in the Bible / Jean Soler -- The abominable pig / Marvin Harris -- Traditional medical values of food / E.N. Anderson -- Food as a cultural construction / Anna Meigs -- The psychoanalyic study of infantile feeding disturbances / Anna Freud -- Nutritional processes and personality developent among the gurage of Ethiopia / Dorothy N. Shack.
Hunger, anxiety, and ritual / William A. Shack -- Fast, feast, and flesh / Caroline Walker Bynum -- The appetite as voice / Joan Jacobs Brumberg -- Conflict and deference / Marjorie Devault -- An anthropological approach to the problem of obesity / Hortense Powdermaker -- Body image and self-awareness / Hilde Bruch -- Anorexia nervosa / Susan Bordo -- Que gordita / Emily Massara -- The sweetness of fat / Elisa J. Sobo -- Soul, black women, and food / Marvalene H. Hughes -- Bread as world / Carole Counihan -- Japanese mothers and obentōs.
On the civilizing of appetite / Stephen Mennell -- Industrial food / Jack Goody -- Time, sugar, and sweetness / Sidney W. Mintz -- The politics of breastfeeding / Penny Van Esterik -- Hunger, malnutrition, and poverty in the contemporary United States / Janet M. Fitchen -- Beyond the myths of hunger / Frances Moore Lappé & Joseph Collins.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 394.1 COU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 108829

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The changing significance of food / Margaret Mead -- Toward a psychosociology of contemporary food consumption / Roland Barthes -- The culinary triangle / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Deciphering a meal / Mary Douglas -- The semiotics of food in the Bible / Jean Soler -- The abominable pig / Marvin Harris -- Traditional medical values of food / E.N. Anderson -- Food as a cultural construction / Anna Meigs -- The psychoanalyic study of infantile feeding disturbances / Anna Freud -- Nutritional processes and personality developent among the gurage of Ethiopia / Dorothy N. Shack.

Hunger, anxiety, and ritual / William A. Shack -- Fast, feast, and flesh / Caroline Walker Bynum -- The appetite as voice / Joan Jacobs Brumberg -- Conflict and deference / Marjorie Devault -- An anthropological approach to the problem of obesity / Hortense Powdermaker -- Body image and self-awareness / Hilde Bruch -- Anorexia nervosa / Susan Bordo -- Que gordita / Emily Massara -- The sweetness of fat / Elisa J. Sobo -- Soul, black women, and food / Marvalene H. Hughes -- Bread as world / Carole Counihan -- Japanese mothers and obentōs.

On the civilizing of appetite / Stephen Mennell -- Industrial food / Jack Goody -- Time, sugar, and sweetness / Sidney W. Mintz -- The politics of breastfeeding / Penny Van Esterik -- Hunger, malnutrition, and poverty in the contemporary United States / Janet M. Fitchen -- Beyond the myths of hunger / Frances Moore Lappé & Joseph Collins.

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