In public debates, communication campaigns and public policies, it is increasingly common to attribute to consumers and their agency an ability to help solve a broad array of societal problems. This tendency is particularly clear in the field of food consumption, owing to the fa…
The handbook of food research
The last twenty years have seen a burgeoning of social scientific and historical research on food. The field has drawn in experts to investigate topics such as: the way globalisation affects the food supply; what cookery books can (and cannot) tell us; changing understandings of…
Ancient China / K.C. Chang -- Han, Ying-shih Yü -- T'ang / Edward H. Schafer -- Sung / Michael Freeman -- Yüan and Ming / Frederick W. Mote -- Ch'ing / Jonathan Spece -- Modern China : north / Vera Y.N. Hsu and Francis L.K. Hsu -- Modern China : South / E.N. Anderson, Jr. and Ma…
An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.
"To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America." "Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of f…
An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.
Een aantallen opstellen over het Engeland van vandaag, waarin weergegeven wordt hoe over voedsel wordt gedacht binnen een bepaalde sociale context. Sociale betrekkingen tussen mensen in termen van 'hoog' en 'laag', ongelijke materiele verdeling, vrijheid van keuze, de verhouding…
Appetites: food and sex in postsocialist China
An experimental ethnography of food, sex, and health in post-socialist China.
Appetites: food and sex in postsocialist China
Judith Farquhar's innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of cli…
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by foo…
This book reveals facts about the behavior, biology, and conservation of the more than 30 small wild cat species. From bobcats to servals, small cats are spread across the globe. They range in size from the rusty-spotted cat and African black-footed cat, each of which weighs aro…
The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, an…
