Everyone Eats : Understanding Food and Culture /

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Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutriti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anderson, E. N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Food habits.
Food preferences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Everyone Eats
  • Introduction to the Second Edition: One More Round
  • 1. Obligatory Omnivores
  • 2. Human Nutritional Needs
  • 3. More Needs Than One
  • 4. The Senses: Taste, Smell, and the Adapted Mind
  • 5. Basics: Environment and Economy
  • 6. Food and Traditional Medicine
  • 7. Food as Pleasure
  • 8. Food Classification and Communication
  • 9. Me, Myself, and the Others: Food as Social Marker
  • 10. Food and Religion
  • 11. Change
  • 12. Foods and Borders: Ethnicities, Cuisines, and Boundary Crossings
  • 13. Feeding the World
  • Appendix: Explaining It All: Nutritional Anthropology and Food Scholarship
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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