Food, power, and agency /
Grounded in the work of Roland Barthes, Bruno Latour, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault, this exciting book uses food as a lens to examine agency and the political, economic, social, and cultural power which underlies every choice of food and every act of eating. The book is divided into three pa...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017. ©2017 |
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| Summary: | Grounded in the work of Roland Barthes, Bruno Latour, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault, this exciting book uses food as a lens to examine agency and the political, economic, social, and cultural power which underlies every choice of food and every act of eating. The book is divided into three parts - National Characters; Anthropological Situations; Health - with each of the eight chapters exploring the power of food as well as the power relationships reflected and refracted through food. Featuring contributions from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and cultural studies scholars from around the world, the book offers case studies of a diverse range -from German cuisine and ethnicity in San Francisco after the Gold Rush, through Italian cuisine in Japan, to'ultragreasy bureks'and teenage fast food consumption in Slovenia. By directly engaging with questions of agency and power, the book pushes the field of food studies in new directions. An important read for students and researchers in food studies, food history, anthropology of food, and sociology of food. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 203 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474298742 1474298745 9781474298759 1474298753 9781474298773 147429877X |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |