WATSON J JAMES L. / CALDWELL ML MELISSA L.

Gebundenes Buch

The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating

A Reader

Herausgeber: Watson, James L; Caldwell, Melissa L

Beschreibung

Food is an important and endlessly fascinating lens for social and cultural analysis -not only for anthropologists, but also for scholars of history, literature, cultural studies, political economy, and public policy. The subject is a central idiom for understanding cultural practices and for teaching about culture on many levels. The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating is a collection of readings that uses the study of food as a vehicle for addressing broad themes that are emerging in social anthropology: globalization, capitalism, market economies, and consumption practices. The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world. It includes studies from eleven countries across five continents on such hot topics as sushi, fast food, gourmet foods, and food scares and contamination.

Autor

James L. Watson is Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. His books include Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia(edited 1998), Village Life in Hong Kong (with Rubie Watson, 2004), and Between Two Cultures (edited, Blackwell, 1977). Melissa L. Caldwell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia (2004).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780631230922
• ISBN-10: 0631230920
• Artikelnr.: 22332601

Rezensionen

"Here at last is a comprehensive, thoroughly absorbing readeron contemporary culinary tastes and techniques. No student of food,globalization, or political economy can afford to overlook thisvaluable collection." Stanley Brandes, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley

"A fascinating collection of essays that ranges fromeveryday food consumption to the global politics of food. Theanalyses yield surprising insights into familiar products and thesocial world of which they are such an important part. While thebook, unlike its subjects, is inedible, it is highly readable andintellectually nutritious." George Ritzer, University ofMaryland

"...provides fascinating glimpses of the behind-the-scene worldof global food distribution and economics and their societalimpacts on people living very different lives on opposite ends ofthe world" Journal of Sensory Studies

"The book provides a fascinating journey through the politics,economics and culture of food in a globalized society...this bookis a gold mine of thought-provoking facts, ideas and concepts...aliterary delight." Journal of Sociolinguistics

"A good tool for an introductory course on culture and societyor perhaps a more advanced course on food, politics and globalmovements." Social Anthropology