Food and Culture: A ReaderCarole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik Psychology Press, 1997 - 424 Seiten Publisher description "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/96046430-d.html" Food touches everything important to people: it marks social differences and strengthens social bonds. Common to all peoples, yet it can signify very different things from table to table. Food and Culture takes a global look at the social, symbolic and political-economic role of food. The stellar contributors to this reader examine some of the meanings of food and eating across cultures, with particular attention to how men and women define themselves differently through their foodways. Articles reveal how food habits and beliefs both present a microcosm of any culture and also contribute to our understanding of human behavior. Crossing many disciplinary boundaries, this reader includes the perspectives of anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, and sociology. The reader starts out by illustrating food's ability to convey symbolic meaning and communicates about a wide range of subjects. Next, the articles draw attention to how the practices of giving, receiving and refusing food initiate, solidify or rupture social bonds. Essays exploring the relation between body image, eating and sexuality in different societies give particular attention to the special and contradictory relation between women and food. Also demonstrated is the relation between the commodification of food, food industries, political power and colonial dominance. Contributors include: Roland Barthes, Susan Bordo, Carolyn Walker Bynum, M.F.K. Fisher, Anna Freud, Jack Goody, Claude Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, and Elisa J. Sobo. |
Inhalt
FOOD MEANING AND VOICE | 9 |
The Culinary Triangle | 28 |
Deciphering a Meal 336 | 36 |
The Semiotics of Food in the Bible | 55 |
The Abominable Pig | 67 |
Traditional Medical Values of Food | 80 |
COMMENSALITY AND FASTING | 93 |
The Psychoanalytic Study | 107 |
Body Image and SelfAwareness | 211 |
Anorexia Nervosa | 226 |
Que Gordita | 251 |
Soul Black Women and Food | 272 |
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOOD | 281 |
Japanese Mothers and Obentōs | 296 |
Industrial Food | 338 |
Time Sugar and Sweetness | 357 |
Nutritional Processes and Personality Development | 117 |
Hunger Anxiety and Ritual | 125 |
Fast Feast and Flesh | 138 |
The Appetite as Voice | 159 |
Conflict and Deference | 180 |
FOOD BODY AND CULTURE | 201 |
The Politics of Breastfeeding | 370 |
Hunger Malnutrition and Poverty | 384 |
Beyond the Myths of Hunger | 402 |
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