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Humans Have An Appetite For Food, And Anthropology - As The Study Of Human Beings, Their Culture, And Society - Has An Interest In The Role Of Food. From Ingredients And Recipes To Meals And Menus Across Time And Space, Eating Culture Is A Highly Engaging Overview That Illustrates The Important Role That Anthropology And Anthropologists Have Played In Understanding Food. Organized Around The Sometimes Elusive Concept Of Cuisine And The Public Discourse - On Gastronomy, Nutrition, Sustainability, And Culinary Skills - That Surrounds It, This Practical Guide To Anthropological Method And Theory Brings Order And Insight To Our Changing Relationship With Food.--pub. Desc. Introduction -- Setting The Anthropological Table -- Part 1. Edibility -- Omnivorousness: Defining Food -- Part 2. Ingredients -- Settled Ingredients: Domestic Food Production -- Mobile Ingredients: Global Food Production -- Part 3. Cooking -- Cooks And Kitchens -- Recipes And Dishes -- Part 4. Eating -- Eating-in: Commensality And Gastro-politics -- Eating-out And Gastronomy -- Part 5. Digesting -- Gastro-anomie: Global Indigestion -- Local Digestion: Making The Global At Home -- Epilogue: Leftovers To Takeaway. Gill

Who reads Eating Culture : An Anthropological Guide to Food?

Author

Gillian Mary Crowther

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442604667

Category

history

Subjects

Cooking, Agriculture, Anthropology

Rating

3.4 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14