Eating culture : an anthropological guide to food

Eating culture : an anthropological guide to food / Gillian Crowther.

From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture. The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crowther, Gillian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: North York, Ontario, Canada ; Tonawanda, New York, USA : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Food > Social aspects.
Food habits.
Food preferences.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Setting the Anthropological Table
  • Part One: Edibility
  • 1. Omnivorousness: Defining Food
  • Part Two: Ingredients
  • 2. Settled Ingredients: Domestic Food Production
  • 3. Mobile Ingredients: Global Food Production
  • Part Three: Cooking
  • 4. Cooks and Kitchens
  • 5. Recipes and Dishes
  • Part Four: Eating
  • 6. Eating-In: Commensality and Gastro-politics
  • 7. Eating-Out and Gastronomy
  • Part Five: Digesting
  • 8. Gastro-anomie: Global Indigestion?
  • 9. Local Digestion: Making the Global at Home
  • Epilogue: Leftovers to Takeaway.

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