Food and the self : consumption, production and material culture
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Food and the self : consumption, production and material culture
(Materializing culture / series editors, Paul Gilroy, Michael Herzfeld and Daniel Miller)
Bloomsbury, 2013
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-190) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people in postindustrial societies strive to form meaningful and moral selves through both the consumption and production of material culture in leisure.
Focusing on the material culture of food, the book explores these theoretical questions through an ethnography of those individuals for whom food is central to their self: 'foodies'. It examines what foodies do, and why they do it, through an in-depth study of their lived experiences. The book uncovers how food offers a means of shaping the self not as a consumer but as an amateur who engages in both the production and consumption of material culture and adopts a professional approach which reveals the new moralities of productive leisure in self-formation. The chapters examine a variety of practices, from fine dining and shopping to cooking and blogging, and include rare data on how people use media such as cookbooks, food television, and digital food media in their everyday life.
This book is ideal for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the meaning of food in modern life.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Foodies: Material Culture and the Self in Postindustrial Society
1. Moralities of Productive Leisure and Material Culture
2. Learning Things: Material Media and Gastronomic Education
3. Consuming Things: Material Cultures and Moralities of Consumption
4. Dining Out: Restaurants, Serious Consumption and Molecular Gastronomy
5. Shopping: Slow Food, Ethical Consumption and the Morality of Quality
6. Producing Things: Material Media and Moralities of Production
7. Cooking: Manual Leisure and Material Production
8. Blogging: Digital Leisure and Material Media Production
Afterword: Materializing Moral Selves
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Index
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