Everyone eats : understanding food and culture /

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Examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons why humans eat what they do, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic. The author explains the economies of food in the globalization era and food's re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anderson, E. N. (Eugene Newton), Jr., 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Food habits.
Food preferences.
Feeding Behavior
Food Preferences
Habitudes alimentaires.
Préférences alimentaires.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Food habits
Food preferences
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Everyone eats
  • Introduction to the second edition: One more round
  • Obligatory omnivores
  • Human nutritional needs
  • More needs than one
  • The senses: taste, smell, and the adapted mind
  • Basics: environment and economy
  • Food and traditional medicine
  • Food as pleasure
  • Food classification and communication
  • Me, myself, and the others: food as social marker
  • Food and religion
  • Change
  • Foods and borders: ethnicities, cuisines, and boundary crossings
  • Feeding the world
  • Appendix: Explaining it all: Nutritional anthropology and food scholarship.

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