Everyone eats : understanding food and culture / E.N. Anderson.
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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.