Everyone Eats Understanding Food and Culture

Name: Everyone Eats Understanding Food and Culture
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ISBN: 9780814704967

ISBN-10: 0814704964

ISBN-13: 9780814704967

Edition: 2005

Authors: E. N. Anderson

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View the Table of Contents .nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Read the Introduction . "Anderson's view of the relationship between the biological and the cultural is nicely provocative, and his rich personal fieldwork experiences greatly enliven the pages ofEveryone Eats." Sidney W. Mintz, author ofTasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past "Everyone Eatsis anthropology at its best, an exceptional blend of biological and cultural explanation that reveals our relationship with food and eating. Anderson's personal ethnographic experience as a nutritional anthropologist among cultures from around the world will leave the reader with a sense of wonderment about the fundamental…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 295
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction : everyone eats



Obligatory omnivores



Human nutritional needs



More needs than one



The senses : taste, smell, and the adapted mind



Basics : environment and economy



Food as pleasure



Food classification and communication



Me, myself, and the others : food as social marker



Food and traditional medicine



Food and religion



Change



Foods and borders : ethnicities, cuisines, and boundary crossings



Feeding the world



Explaining it all : nutritional anthropology and food scholarship