(DOWNLOAD) "Food" by Leo Coleman # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

eBook details

Title: Food
Author : Leo Coleman
Release Date : January 09, 2013
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Anthropology,
Pages : * pages
Size : 6515 KB

Description

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.