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008 110725s2011 nyua b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2011031165
020 $a9780415888547 (hardback)
020 $a9780415888554 (paperback)
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050 00 $aGT2850$b.T326 2011
082 00 $a306.4$223
084 $aSOC026000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aTaking food public :$bredefining foodways in a changing world /$cedited by Psyche Williams Forson, Carole Counihan.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2011.
300 $axiv, 635 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm..
520 $a"The field of food studies has been growing rapidly over the last thirty years and has exploded since the turn of the century. Scholars from an array of disciplines have trained fresh theoretical and methodological approaches onto new dimensions of the human relationship to food. This anthology capitalizes on this particular cultural moment to bring to the fore recent scholarship from some new and established voices and that have been pushing the limits of the field into ever more fascinating and innovative directions. Taking Food Public is organized into five interrelated sections: food production, consumption, performance, diasporas, and activism. The articles in this reader aim to provide new perspectives on the changing meanings and uses of food in the twenty-first century.This book integrates understandings of race, class, gender, region, sexuality and ethnic/national identity into the human experience of food. Taking Food Public also examines how this experience is manifested in extraordinary forms of food production and consumption (in mass media performances of cooking and eating, redefinitions of foodways throughout Diasporas, identities around food, and in food activism).Most important, this bewildering array of new academic insights into food and culture as well as the wealth of new food trends and food issues around the world cries out for original ways to frame, organize, and help teach these new developments. Here are the right Editors to help write original, teachable, foundational essays and otherwise organize this disparate, exciting new material into a coherent whole"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
650 0 $aFood$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aFood supply.
650 0 $aFood habits.
650 00 $aNutrition policy.
650 0 $aFood industry and trade.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aWilliams-Forson, Psyche A.
700 1 $aCounihan, Carole,$d1948-