Wedding cakes and cultural history

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Wedding cakes and cultural history

Simon R. Charsley

Routledge, 1992

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [151]-158

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ISBN 9780415026482

内容説明

The question of food is a growing interest in anthropology. Levi-Strauss made the famous distinction between the raw and the cooked and this ushered in the so-called 'structuralist revolution', the effects of which are still being felt within the subject. The wedding cake, whether 'traditional' or in new styles is no ordinary object. At once familiar in form, tradition and ceremony, it presents a fascination and a range of problems which anthropologists are only just beginning to work on. It is a product of a complex, contingent and continuing history, which illustrates and challenges theories of 'structuralism' and 'neo-structuralism'.

目次

Foreword by William Woys Weaver Introduction PART II: 1. The British Wedding Cake in the Late Twentieth Century 2. Variation, differences and Themes 3. Cultural Creation: myth, history and language 4. When the Wedding Cake Was Not and Might Never Have Been PART II: 5. Great Cakes, Plum(b) Cakes and Bride Cakes 6. Confectionery and Icing 7. The Rise of the Victorian Cake and its Successors PART III: 8. Uses and Their Evolution 9. Meanings and Interpretation 10. Towards a Theory of Cultural Change
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: pbk ISBN 9780415026499

内容説明

The wedding cake is one of the most extraordinary of the familiar objects of the Western world. In this unique contribution to the anthropology of food, Simon Charsley traces its fascinating history, from late medieval feasts and rites, through the Victorian wedding breakfast and into the present. He shows that the wedding cake provides a vivid illustration of the traditions and traditional values inherent in all food and demonstrates the part that material culture plays in the process of change. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in the fields of anthropology, cultural history and sociology.

目次

Introduction PART I: 1. The British Wedding Cake in the Late Twentieth Century 2. Variation, differences and Themes 3. Cultural Creation: myth, history and language 4. When the Wedding Cake Was Not and Might Never Have Been PART II: 5. Great Cakes, Plum(b) Cakes and Bride Cakes 6. Confectionery and Icing 7. The Rise of the Victorian Cake and its Successors PART III: 8. Uses and Their Evolution 9. Meanings and Interpretation 10. Towards a Theory of Cultural Change.

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