Food

Ethnographic Encounters

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Food preparation, consumption, and exchange are eminently social practices, and experiencing another cuisine often provides our first encounter with a different culture. This volume presents fascinating essays about cooking, eating, and sharing food, by anthropologists working in many parts of the world, exploring what they learned by eating with others.These are accounts of specific experiences - of cooking in Mombasa, shopping for organic produce in Vienna, eating vegetarian in Vietnam, raising and selling chickens in Hong Kong, and of refugees subsisting on food aid. With a special focus on the experience and challenge of ethnographic fieldwork, the essays cover a wide range of topics in food studies and anthropology, including food safety and food security, cultural diversity and globalization, colonial histories and contemporary identities, and changing ecological, social, and political relations across cultures.Food: Ethnographic Encounters offers readers a broad view of the vibrancy of local and global food cultures, and provides an accessible introduction to both food studies and contemporary ethnography.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-12-01
Mått156 x 234 x 10 mm
Vikt268 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEncounters: Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
Antal sidor192
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781847889072

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Antropologi inom Samhalle och politik
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik

PrefaceJohn BornemanIntroductionLeo Coleman1. Food and Morality in YemenAnne Meneley, Trent University, Canada2. It All Started with the BhajiasNina Berman, The Ohio State University, USA3. The Enchantments of Food in the Lower Amazon, BrazilMark Harris, University of St Andrews, UK4. Live Poultry Markets and Avian Flu in Hong KongFrédéric Keck, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France5. Revisiting Lao Food: Pain and CommensalityPenny Van Esterik, York University, Canada6. In Search of the Elusive Heirloom Tomato: Farms and Farmers' Markets, Fields and FieldworkJennifer A. Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA7. Keeping out of the Kitchen: Cooking and Power in a Moroccan HouseholdClaire Nicholas, Princeton University, USA8. "Do You Know How to Eat . . .?" Edible Expertise in Ho Chi Minh CityNina Hien, New York University, USA9. Learning to Exchange Words and Food in the MarquesasKathleen C. Riley, Queens College, City University of New York, USA10. Eating Vegetarian in VietnamChristophe Robert, City University of Hong Kong, China11. The Food of Sorrow: Humanitarian Aid to Displaced PeopleElizabeth Dunn, University of Colorado, USAGuide for Further ReadingEndmatter