Food and the Status Quest

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

1996
Berghahn Books, Incorporated (Verlag)
978-1-57181-871-3 (ISBN)

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Using the approaches of both the social and biological sciences, these 14 contributions from the October 1991 symposium at Lake Tegernsee in Bavaria offer cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives on the use of food to enhance status, particularly in regards to prestige or social ranking. Th

The use of food to negotiate status is found in all human societies. Here, for the first time, a single book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behavior that appears to have biological roots such as the tendency to seek status through the medium of food. It explores the limits that our biological heritage places on cultural expressions of such behavior, as well as the multiplicity of ways in which biologically based tendencies can be transformed by culture. Finally, it addresses the impact of status-seeking on nutritional programs in developing countries.

Polly Wiessner and Wulf Schiefenhövel are Senior Research Fellows at the Forschungsstellefür Humanethologie, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.6.1996
Reihe/Serie	Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
Zusatzinfo	12 Figures; 12 Plates, unspecified; 12 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort	Herndon
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	576 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-57181-871-5 / 1571818715
ISBN-13	978-1-57181-871-3 / 9781571818713
Zustand	Neuware