Liquid materialities : a history of milk, science, and the law

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Liquid materialities : a history of milk, science, and the law

Peter Atkins

(Critical food studies / series editor Michael K. Goodman)

Ashgate, c2010

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

As a food, milk has been revered and ignored, respected and feared. In the face of its 'material resistance', attempts were made to purify it of dirt and disease, and to standardize its fat content. This is a history of the struggle to bring milk under control, to manipulate its naturally variable composition and, as a result, to redraw the boundaries between nature and society. Peter Atkins follows two centuries of dynamic and intriguing food history, shedding light on the resistance of natural products to the ordering of science. After this look at the stuff in foodstuffs, it is impossible to see the modern diet in the same way again.

Table of Contents

  • I: Rematerializing Food History
  • Introduction to Part I
  • 1: A Material World
  • 2: Daniel Schrumpf
  • II: In Search of Milk
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 3: Seeking the Natural
  • 4: Expertise
  • 5: Standards
  • III: Disciplining Milk
  • Introduction to Part III
  • 6: Moralizing Milk
  • 7: Policing the Natural
  • 8: Legal Ontologies and the Performative Realm of the Law
  • IV: Impurity and Danger
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • 9: Dirty Milk and the Ontology of 'Clean'
  • 10: The Material Politics of Milk
  • 11: Conclusion 1

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  • NCID
    BB15288592
  • ISBN
    • 9780754679219
  • LCCN
    2009030146
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Farnham
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 334 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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