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The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating : A Reader, Hardback Book

The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating : A Reader Hardback

Edited by James L. (Harvard University) Watson, Melissa L. (University of California, Santa Cruz) Caldwell

Part of the Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology series

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The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world. Uses food as a central idiom for teaching about culture and addresses broad themes such as globalization, capitalism, market economies, and consumption practices Spanning 5 continents, features studies from 11 countries—Japan, China, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Burkina Faso, Chile, Trinidad, Mexico, and the United States Offers discussion of such hot topics as sushi, fast food, gourmet foods, and food scares and contamination

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