Introduction : sensory ethnobotany in the Anthropocene -- Indigenous landscape aesthetics in the changing Cerrado -- Those who love gardens : human-environment engagements in past and present -- Educating affection : becoming gardener parents -- Naming plant children : ethnobota…
Introduction : sensory ethnobotany in the Anthropocene -- Indigenous landscape aesthetics in the changing Cerrado -- Those who love gardens : human-environment engagements in past and present -- Educating affection : becoming gardener parents -- Naming plant children : ethnobota…
"From feasts to fashion, awareness of the medieval quotidian has proven vital to interpreting its literature. Authors and audiences may yearn for transcendence, only to find it rooted to the social world of practice. As Jill Mann reminds us in 1979, a time when patristic, theolo…
Introduction: The literature of food / J. Michelle Coghlan -- Medieval feasts / Aaron K. Hostetter -- The art of early modern cookery / Joe Moshenska -- The romantic revolution in taste / Denise Gigante -- The matter of early American taste / Lauren Klein -- The culinary landsca…
"From feasts to fashion, awareness of the medieval quotidian has proven vital to interpreting its literature. Authors and audiences may yearn for transcendence, only to find it rooted to the social world of practice. As Jill Mann reminds us in 1979, a time when patristic, theolo…
Introduction : food, drink and modern social theory -- The natural and the social : the agricultural revolution -- Exchange : the Columbian Exchange and mercantile empires -- Culture : ritual, prohibition and taboo -- Industrialization : technology, rationality and urbanization …
"'Whether or not food passes into the truth of human nature' was among the questions that scholastic theologians routinely disputed. Many twelfth-century theologians, including Peter Lombard, argued that the 'truth' of every human body came entirely from Adam, and that food stim…
A classic text about the social study of food, this is the first English language edition of Jean-Pierre Poulain's seminal work. Tracing the history of food scholarship, The Sociology of Food provides an overview of sociological theory and its relevance to the field of food. Div…
"A classic text about the social study of food, this is the first English language edition of Jean-Pierre Poulain's seminal work. Tracing the history of food scholarship, The Sociology of Food provides an overview of sociological theory and its relevance to the field of food. Di…
Food in antiquity
This book examines the changing landscape of food governance. Within this landscape, both public and private regulators increasingly encounter one another as markets have become more globalized. While these encounters may often be planned, long-term and lead to positive relation…