Everyone Eats

Understanding Food and Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvE. N. Anderson,E N Anderson

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Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat what they do, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic. E. N. Anderson explains the economics of food in the globalization era; food's relationship to religion, medicine, and ethnicity; and offers suggestions on how to end hunger, starvation, and malnutrition.This thoroughly updated Second Edition incorporates the latest food scholarship, most notably recognizing the impact of sustainable eating advocacy and the state of food security in the world today. Anderson also brings more insight than ever before into the historical and scientific underpinnings of our food customs, fleshing this out with fifteen new and original photographs from his own extensive fieldwork.A perennial classic in the anthropology of food, Everyone Eats feeds our need to understand human ecology by explaining the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-02-07
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor362
Upplaga2
FörlagNew York University Press
ISBN9780814760062

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Acknowledgments Introduction: Everyone Eats Introduction to the Second Edition: One More Round 1. Obligatory Omnivores 2. Human Nutritional Needs 3. More Needs Than One 4. The Senses: Taste, Smell, and the Adapted Mind 5. Basics: Environment and Economy 6. Food and Traditional Medicine 7. Food as Pleasure 8. Food Classification and Communication 9. Me, Myself, and the Others: Food as Social Marker 10. Food and Religion 11. Change 12. Foods and Borders: Ethnicities, Cuisines, and Boundary Crossings 13. Feeding the World Appendix: Explaining It All: Nutritional Anthropology and Food Scholarship Notes References Index About the Author

Everyone Eats is anthropology at its best, an exceptional blend of biological and cultural explanation that reveals our relationship with food and eating. Anderson's personal ethnographic experience as a nutritional anthropologist among cultures from around the world will leave the reader with a sense of wonderment about the fundamental human act of eating. Throughout the book Anderson develops a deep social conscience about the problems of overand under-nutritionthat face the world today - Barrett P. Brenton,Associate Editor of The Encyclopedia of Food and Culture Anderson's view of the relationship between the biological and the cultural is nicely provocative, and his rich personal fieldwork experiences greatly enliven the pages of Everyone Eats. - Sidney W. Mintz,author of Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past Plenty of cultural insights and background history lend to a survey particularly recommended for college-level students of anthropology and social science. (The Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review) Anderson's book is a solid introduction to the anthropology of food for students and general readers. It is clear, well-written, spiced with interesting examples, and illustrated with many evocative photographs taken by the author and by Barbara Anderson. (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute) Although intended for the general public and not as a textbook, this book is recommended for higher education, especially advanced courses (Choice)

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