Adventures in eating : anthropological experiences in dining from around the world

Adventures in eating : anthropological experiences in dining from around the world / edited by Helen R. Haines and Clare A. Sammells.

"Anthropologists training to do fieldwork in far-off, unfamiliar places prepare for significant challenges with regard to language, customs, and other cultural differences. However, like other travelers to unknown places, they are often unprepared to deal with the most basic and necessary requi...

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Other Authors: Haines, Helen R. (Editor), Sammells, Clare A., 1973- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Subjects:
Food habits.
Food preferences.
Dinners and dining.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Dinners and dining
Food habits
Food preferences
Manners & Customs.
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
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Table of Contents:
  • The importance of food and feasting around the world / Helen R. Haines and Clare A. Sammells
  • Boiled eggs with chicks inside, or what commensality means / Robert Ivar Lohmann
  • A rat by any other name : conflicting definitions of "dinner" in Belize, Central America / Helen R. Haines
  • The delicacy of raising and eating guinea pig / David John Goldstein
  • Termites tell the tale : globalization of an Indigenous food system among Abaluyia of Western Kenya / Maria G. Cattell
  • Ode to a Chuño : learning to love freeze-dried potatoes in highland Bolivia / Clare A. Sammells
  • Durian : the king of fruits or an acquired taste? / Maxine E. McBrinn
  • MSG and sugar : dilemmas and tribulations of a "native" ethnographer / Lidia Marte
  • Eating incorrectly in Japan / James J. Aimers
  • No heads, no feet, no monkeys, no dogs : the evolution of personal food taboos / Miriam S. Chaiken
  • Buona forchetta : overeating in Italy / Rachel Black
  • "No thanks, I don't eat meat" : vegetarian adventures in beef-centric Argentina / Ariela Zycherman
  • Eating with the Blackfeet : who's been eating whose food? / Susan L. Johnston
  • Drinking Ethiopia / Ronald Reminick
  • You are what you drink in Honduras / Joel Palka
  • Epilogue : Edibles and ethnic boundaires, globalization and guinea pigs / Miriam S. Chaiken.

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