Anthropology of Food & Nutrition – serie
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Liquid Bread
Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Av Wulf Schiefenhövel, Helen Macbeth
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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“This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society.... Highly Recommended.”—ChoiceA Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011Winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook UK AwardBeer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced …
Food and the Status Quest
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Häftad, 1997
527 kr
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The use of food to negotiate status is found in all human societies. Here, for the first time, a single book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behavior that appears to have biological roots such as the …
Drinking
Anthropological Approaches
Häftad, 2001
527 kr
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Over the last decades quite a few studies have been devoted to drinking. Most of these were concerned with alcohol and written by social anthropologists. This book presents multidisciplinary aspects of the ingestion of liquids at large, addressing many of the overt and covert meanings of drinking: …
Researching Food Habits
Methods and Problems
Av Helen Macbeth, Jeremy MacClancy
Inbunden, 2004
1921 kr
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The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its …
Researching Food Habits
Methods and Problems
Av Helen Macbeth, Jeremy MacClancy
Häftad, 2004
527 kr
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The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its …
Food for Health, Food for Wealth
Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities
Häftad, 2004
444 kr
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Food and eating practices are central to current sociological and anthropological concerns about the body, health, consumption, and identity. This study explores the importance of these themes as they intersect with processes of globalization and cultural production within a specific group of …
Food for Health, Food for Wealth
Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities
Inbunden, 2000
1861 kr
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Food and eating practices are central to current sociological and anthropological concerns about the body, health, consumption, and identity. This study explores the importance of these themes as they intersect with processes of globalization and cultural production within a specific group of …
Drinking
Anthropological Approaches
Inbunden, 2002
1921 kr
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Over the last decades quite a few studies have been devoted to drinking. Most of these were concerned with alcohol and written by social anthropologists. This book presents multidisciplinary aspects of the ingestion of liquids at large, addressing many of the overt and covert meanings of drinking: …
Food and the Status Quest
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Inbunden, 1996
1921 kr
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The use of food to negotiate status is found in all human societies. Here, for the first time, a single book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behavior that appears to have biological roots such as the …
Food Preferences and Taste
Continuity and Change
Inbunden, 1997
1921 kr
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Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic …
Food Preferences and Taste
Continuity and Change
Häftad, 1997
527 kr
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Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic …
Liquid Bread
Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Av Wulf Schiefenhövel, Helen Macbeth
Häftad, 2013
348 kr
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“This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society.... Highly Recommended.”—ChoiceA Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011Winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook UK AwardBeer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced …
Food in Zones of Conflict
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Av Paul Collinson, Helen Macbeth
Inbunden, 2014
1861 kr
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The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as …
Food in Zones of Conflict
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Av Paul Collinson, Helen Macbeth
Häftad, 2017
511 kr
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The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as …
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Av Paul Collinson, Iain Young m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1921 kr
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Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face. …
Food Connections
Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration
Inbunden, 2022
1921 kr
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Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders and consumers and a wide range of small …
Edible People
The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh
Inbunden, 2022
1936 kr
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While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to …
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Av Paul Collinson, Iain Young m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
527 kr
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Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face. …
Pure Food
Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Av Paul Collinson, Helen Macbeth
Inbunden, 2023
1921 kr
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In presenting a variety of theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives on pure food, this volume demonstrates similarities and variations in cultural beliefs, behaviours and practices in different societies. These in turn highlight that pure food is a common issue for humanity, whatever the …
Edible People
The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh
Häftad, 2026
290 kr
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While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to …
Food Connections
Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration
Häftad, 2026
328 kr
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Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders and consumers and a wide range of small …
Pure Food
Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Av Paul Collinson, Helen Macbeth
Häftad, 2026
382 kr
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In presenting a variety of theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives on pure food, this volume demonstrates similarities and variations in cultural beliefs, behaviours and practices in different societies. These in turn highlight that pure food is a common issue for humanity, whatever the …
Consuming the Inedible
Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice
Av Jeremy M. MacClancy, Jeya Henry m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1921 kr
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Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, …
Consuming the Inedible
Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice
Av Jeremy M. MacClancy, Jeya Henry m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
527 kr
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"...contains fascinating material on the social, political, nutritional, and evolutionary aspects of human food choice...Scholars and students in food studies will find Consuming the Inedible useful for its variety of approaches to 'unusual' eating practices, and several of the chapters should also …
