| Feasts, Fasts, Famine: Food for Thought: Food for Thought Contributor(s): Caplan, Pat (Author) |
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ISBN: 0854963847 ISBN-13: 9780854963843 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $37.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1994 Annotation: In this Lecture, I shall seek to do two things. One is to show how an anthropological approach can give us particular kinds of understanding about people's food choices. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 394.1 |
| LCCN: 93024152 |
| Series: Berg Occasional Papers in Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 5.48" W x 8.47" (0.12 lbs) 36 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and moral issues. Through an examination of a wide range of material drawn from anthropology, history, literature and political economy, the author discusses the relationship between food and entitlement, gender, notions of the body and development. Food is shown to be a powerful metaphor for our sense of self, our social and political relations, our cosmology and our global system. |