The Anthropology of Food and Body

Author: Carole M. Counihan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317325397
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating the relationship between food, the body, and cultural notions of gender.

The Anthropology of Food and Body

Author: Carole Counihan
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415921930
Category : Food habits
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Food and Gender

Author: Carole M. Counihan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134416385
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It considers how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy. This relationship is considered through two central questions: How does control of food production, distribution, and consumption contribute to men's and women's power and social position? and How does food symbolically connote maleness and femaleness and establish the social value of men and women? Other issues discussed include men's and women's attitudes towards their bodies and the legitimacy of their appetites.

Food and the Status Quest

Author: Polly Wiessner
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571811233
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
This book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behaviour that appears to have biological roots such as the tendency to seek status through the medium of food.

Gastronomy

Author: Margaret L. Arnott
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110815923
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389

Book Description

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

Author: Frances E. Mascia-Lees
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444340468
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 563

Book Description
A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptualizations of the body. In this ground-breaking work on the body and embodiment, the latest scholarship from anthropology and related social science fields is presented, providing new insights on body politics and the experience of the body Original chapters cover historical and contemporary approaches and highlight new research frameworks Reflects the increasing importance of embodiment and its ethnographic contexts within anthropology Highlights the increasing emphasis on examining the production of scientific, technological, and medical expertise in studying bodies and embodiment

Eating Culture

Author: Gillian Crowther
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487593317
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393

Book Description
From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture. The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions about nomadism, commercializing food, food security, and ethical consumption, including treatment of animals and the long-term environmental and health consequences of meat consumption. New feature boxes offer case studies and exercises to help highlight anthropological methods and approaches, and each chapter includes a further reading section. By considering the concept of cuisine and public discourse, Eating Culture brings order and insight to our changing relationship with food.

Food Culture

Author: Janet Chrzan
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781785332890
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices. In each chapter, a case study from the author's own work is to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore the methods.

Nourishing Life

Author: Arianna Huhn
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805399071
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations. Embedded within central themes in the study of Africa south of the Sahara, the volume combines insights from philosophy and food studies to find textured layers of meaning in a seemingly simple cuisine.

Food and Culture

Author: Carole Counihan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415521033
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 650

Book Description
This reader reveals how food habits and beliefs both present a microcosm of any culture and contribute to our understanding of human behaviour. Particular attention is given to how men and women define themselves differently through food choices.