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The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating: A Reader

The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world.

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Uses food as a central idiom for teaching about culture and addresses broad themes such as globalization, capitalism, market economies, and consumption practices

Spanning 5 continents, features studies from 11 countries—Japan, China, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Burkina Faso, Chile, Trinidad, Mexico, and the United States

Offers discussion of such hot topics as sushi, fast food, gourmet foods, and food scares and contamination

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 332 pages

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