| Food, Health and Identity Contributor(s): Caplan, Pat (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415156807 ISBN-13: 9780415156806 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1997 Annotation: By addressing the issue of food and eating today, "Food, Health and Identity" considers the way in which food habits are changing, and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence choice. In reviewing some of the existing literature on the subject, this book discusses how social scientists can help us understand why people eat what they do. Some of the chapters cover the family meal, wedding cakes, the rise of vegetarianism, and creation of individual identity through lifestyle. Contributors include Hanna Bradby, Simon Charsley, Allison James, Anne Keane, Lydia Martens and Alan Warde. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Social Science | Customs & Traditions |
| Dewey: 394.120 |
| LCCN: 96-51909 |
| Lexile Measure: 1430 |
| Series: Chapter by James |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.49" W x 8.52" (1.01 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence people's food choices. The articles explore, among other issues: - the family meal - wedding cakes - nostalgia and the invention of tradition - the rise of vegetarianism - the recent BSE crisis - the creolization' of British food eating out - creation of individual identity through lifestyle. The contributors include Hanna Bradby, Simon Charsley, Allison James, Anne Keane, Lydia Martens and Alan Warde. |