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Everyone eats : understanding food and culture /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 relationship to religion, medicine, and ethnicity. He offers suggestions on how to end hunger, starvation, and malnutrition. The book explains the ways that cultures, biology, and political systems structure the edible environment.-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 353 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-344) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814785768 081478576X |