Food & society : principles and paradoxes
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Food & society : principles and paradoxes
Polity, 2013
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Food and society
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
: pbk383.8:G945010796661
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This timely and engaging text offers students a social perspective on food, food practices, and the modern food system. It engages readers curiosity by highlighting several paradoxes: how food is both mundane and sacred, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary global era, comes from everywhere but nowhere in particular. With a social constructionist framework, the book provides an empirically rich, multi-faceted, and coherent introduction to this fascinating field. Each chapter begins with a vivid case study, proceeds through a rich discussion of research insights, and ends with discussion questions and suggested resources. Chapter topics include food s role in socialization, identity, work, health and social change, as well as food marketing and the changing global food system. In synthesizing insights from diverse fields of social inquiry, the book addresses issues of culture, structure, and social inequality throughout. Written in a lively style, this book will be both accessible and revealing to beginning and intermediate students alike.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vi 1 Principles and Paradoxes in the Study of Food 1 2 Food and Identity: Fitting In and Standing Out 16 3 Food as Spectacle: The Hard Work of Leisure 40 4 Nutrition and Health: Good to Eat, Hard to Stomach 59 5 Branding and Marketing: Governing the Sovereign Consumer 82 6 Industrialization: The High Costs of Cheap Food 102 7 Global Food: From Everywhere and Nowhere 122 8 Food Access: Surplus and Scarcity 141 9 Food and Social Change: The Value of Values 160 References 182 Glossary 208 Index 220
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