Cooking, Cuisine and Class A Study in Comparative Sociology

Name: Cooking, Cuisine and Class A Study in Comparative Sociology
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ISBN: 9780521286961

ISBN-10: 0521286964

ISBN-13: 9780521286961

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Authors: Jack Goody, John Dunn, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Geoffrey Hawthorn

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The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous anthropological work that Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He criticises those approaches which overlook the comparative historical dimension of culinary, and other, cultural differences that emerge in class societies, both of which elements he particularly emphasises in this book. The central question that Professor Goody addresses here is why a differentiated 'haute cuisine' has not…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/24/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface



Intentions and remarks



State of play



Production and consumption among the LoDagaa and Gonja of northern Ghana



The high and the low: culinary culture in Asia and Europe



Industrial food: towards the development of a world cuisine



The impact of the world system



Cooking and the domestic economy



Terms, operations and cognition


Notes to the text


Bibliography


Index