Food consumption in global perspective : essays in the anthropology of food in honour of Jack Goody
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Food consumption in global perspective : essays in the anthropology of food in honour of Jack Goody
（Consumption and public life）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Available at 8 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Jack Goody 1. Introduction: Cooking, Cuisine and Class and the Anthropology of Food
- Jakob A. Klein 2. Meat: A Cultural Biography in (South) China
- James L. Watson 3. From Fasting to Fast Food in Kumasi, Ghana
- Gracia Clark 4. Civilising Tastes: From Caste to Class in South Indian Foodways
- James Staples 5. The Fast and the Fusion: Class, Colonialism and the Remaking of Comida Tipica in Highland Ecuador
- Emma-Jayne Abbots 6. The High and the Low in the Making of a Portuguese National Cuisine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Jose Sobral 7. Indigestion in the Long Nineteenth Century: Aspects of English Taste and Anxiety, 1800-1950
- Stephen Mennell 8. Eating Out Bangladeshi-Style: Catering and Class in Diasporic East London
- Johan Pottier 9. The Taste for Milk in Modern China (1865-1937)
- Francoise Sabban 10. Drink, Meals and Social Boundaries
- Sami Zubaida
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