Lauren A Wynne

Predictable Pleasures

Food and the Pursuit of Balance in Rural Yucatán

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Wynne examines the centrality of food in rural Yucatán and how residents practice care, as exercised through food, to negotiate anxieties, achieve desired bodily and social status, and maintain valued cultural forms.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781496201317
• ISBN-10: 1496201310
• Artikelnr.: 58124714

Autorenporträt

Lauren A. Wynne is an assistant professor of anthropology at Ursinus College.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Force with Which We Live
2. Giving Life to Ourselves
3. If It Tastes Good
4. So That We Won’t Die
5. Put a Little Salt
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index