Food and culture : a reader / edited by Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik.
| Other author | Counihan, Carole, 1948- |
| Other author | Van Esterik, Penny. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 1997. |
| Description | 424 pages ; 27 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword from The gastronomical me / M. F. K. Fisher -- Introduction / Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik -- Food, meaning, and voice. The changing significance of food / Margaret Mead ; Toward a psychosociology of contemporary food consumption / Roland Barthes ; The culinary triangle / Claude Lévi-Strauss ; Deciphering a meal / Mary Douglas ; The semiotics of food in the Bible / Jean Soler ; The abominable pig / Marvin Harris ; Traditional medical values of food / E.N. Anderson -- Commensality and fasting: giving, receiving, and refusing food. Food as a cultural construction / Anna Meigs ; The psychoanalyic study of infantile feeding disturbances / Anna Freud ; Nutritional processes and personality development among the Gurage of Ethiopia / Dorothy N. Shack ; |
| Contents | Hunger, anxiety, and ritual: deprivation and spirit possession among the Gurage of Ethiopia / William A. Shack ; Fast, feast, and flesh: the religious significance of food to medieval women / Caroline Walker Bynum ; The appetite as voice / Joan Jacobs Brumberg ; Conflict and deference / Marjorie Devault -- Food, body, and culture. An anthropological approach to the problem of obesity / Hortense Powdermaker ; Body image and self-awareness / Hilde Bruch ; Anorexia nervosa: psychopathology as the crystallization of culture / Susan Bordo ; Que gordita / Emily Massara ; The sweetness of fat: health, procreation, and socialability in rural Jamaica / Elisa J. Sobo ; Soul, black women, and food / Marvalene H. Hughes -- The political economy of food: commodification and scarcity. Bread as world: food habits and social relations in modernizing Sardinia / Carole Counihan ; Japanese mothers and obentōs: the lunch box as ideological state apparatus / Anne Allison ; |
| Contents | On the civilizing of appetite / Stephen Mennell ; Industrial food: towards the development of world cuisine / Jack Goody ; Time, sugar, and sweetness / Sidney W. Mintz ; The politics of breastfeeding: an advocacy perspective / Penny Van Esterik ; Hunger, malnutrition, and poverty in the contemporary United States: some observations on their social and cultural context / Janet M. Fitchen ; Beyond the myths of hunger / Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 96046430 |
| ISBN | 0415917093 |
| ISBN | 9780415917094 |
| ISBN | 0415917107 (pb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780415917100 (pb : alk. paper) |