Feasts, Fasts, Famine

Food for Thought

Pat Caplan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

36 Seiten

1994
Berg Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-85496-384-3 (ISBN)

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This study deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and moral issues. Through an examination of a wide range of material drawn from anthropology, history, literature and political economy, the author discusses the relationship between food and entitlement, gender, notions of the body and development. Food is shown to be a powerful metaphor for our sense of self, our social and political relations, our cosmology and our global system.

Pat Caplan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Why Food? Anthropological Approaches to Food, Part I Feasts, Part II Fasts, Dieting, Eating Disorders, Gender and Food Consumption, Fads- Vegetarianism, Part III FAmine: Starvation, Malnutrition and Hunger; Famine in Africa, Hunger and Malnutrition in the West, No More Meals? Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.1.1994
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-85496-384-7 / 0854963847
ISBN-13	978-0-85496-384-3 / 9780854963843
Zustand	Neuware