Feasts, Fasts, Famine
Food for Thought
1st Edition
Published on 25. February 2021
36 pages
978-1-000-32307-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-000-32307-8 (9781000323078)
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Person
Pat Caplan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Content
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
