Food preferences and taste : continuity and change

Author(s)

• Macbeth, Helen M.

Bibliographic Information

Food preferences and taste : continuity and change

edited by Helen Macbeth

（The anthropology of food and nutrition, v. 2）

Berghahn Books, 1997

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes socialand biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps List of Tables Foreword Preface Chapter 1. Food Preferences and Taste: An Introduction Helen Macbeth and Sue Lawry Chapter 2. Primate Models for Taste and Food Preferences Claude Marcel Hladik Chapter 3. Food Preferences in Neotropical Primates in Relation to Taste Sensitivity Bruno Simmen Chapter 4. Neural Processing Underlying Food Selection Edmund T. Rolls Chapter 5. Good Taste and Bad Taste: Preferences and Aversions as Biological Principles Wulf Schiefenhoevel Chapter 6. Disgust: The Cultural Evolution of a Food-based Emotion Paul Rozin, Jonathan Haidt, Clark McCauley and Sumio Imada Chapter 7. Wild Plants as Famine Foods: Food Choice Under Conditions of Scarcity Rebecca Huss-Ashmore and Susan L. Johnston Chapter 8. Three Centuries of Changing European Tastes for the Potato Ellen Messer Chapter 9. The Pathways of Taste: The West Andalucian Case Isabel Gonzalez Turmo Chapter 10. Evolution in Eating Habits in the Alto Douro of Northern Portugal Maria Manuela Valagao Chapter 11. Nationality and Food Preferences in the Cerdanya Valley, Eastern Pyrenees Helen Macbeth and Alex Green Chapter 12. Breaking the Rules: Changes in Food Acceptability among the Tharu of Nepal Christian McDonaugh Chapter 13. Choices of Food and Cuisine in the Concept of Social Space among the Yao of Thailand Annie Hubert Chapter 14. Taste and Embodiment: The Food Preferences of Iranians in Britain Lynn Harbottle Chapter 15. Food Preferences and Taste in an African Perspective: A Word of Caution Igor de Garine Notes on Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA36999365
• ISBN:
  • 1571819584
  • 1571819703
• LCCN: 97028668
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Providence, R.I.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 218 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN407
  • DC21 : 306.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Food
  • LCSH : Food preferences
  • LCSH : Food consumption
  • LCSH : Taste
  • LCSH : Nutritional anthropology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA36999434