Fast Food/Slow Food
The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System
AltaMira Press
1st Edition
Published on 25. August 2006
272 pages
978-0-7591-1413-5 (ISBN)
Description
Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental anthropology: economic development, agricultural economics, consumer behavior, nutritional sciences, environmental sustainability, and globalization studies.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
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CA
United States
ISBN-13
978-0-7591-1413-5 (9780759114135)
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Persons
Richard Wilk is chair of the anthropology department at Indiana University and past president of the Society for Economic Anthropology. He hwas conducted most of his fieldwork in Belize and the United States. His publications included:The Environment in Anthropology (with Nora Haenn, 2001 New York University Press);Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology (1996 Westview Press). With Josiah Heyman, he is co-editor of the AltaMira Series in Globalization and the Environment.
Content
Part 1 Part I: Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Food at Moderate Speeds
Chapter 3 Chapter 2: From Wild Weeds to Artisanal Cheese
Part 4 Part II: Whole Food Economies: Breaking Down Dichotomies
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Building Lives with Food: Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Food in Yap
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Food for the Malian Middle Class: An Invisible Cuisine
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Taco Bell, Maseca, and Slow Food: A Postmodern Apocalypse for Mexico's Peasant Cuisine?
Chapter 8 Chapter 6: From Hunger Foods to Heritage Foods: Challenges to Food Localization in Lao PDR
Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Tasting the Worlds of Yesterday and Today: Culinary Tourism and Nostalgia Foods in Post-Soviet Russia
Part 10 Part III: The Contradictions of Industrial Food
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Kaiten-zushi and Konbini: Japanese Food Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Chapter 12 Chapter 9: Rice Ball Rivalries: Japanese Convenience Stores and the Appetite of Late Capitalism
Chapter 13 Chapter 10: Global Tastes, Local Contexts: An Ethnographic Account of Fast Food Expansion in San Fernando City, the Philippines
Part 14 Part IV: Transforming Markets and Reconnecting with Consumers
Chapter 15 Chapter 11: From the Bottom-Up: The Global Expansion of Chinese Begetable Trade for New York City Markets
Chapter 16 Chapter 12: The Role of Ideology in New Mexico's CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Organizations: Conflicting Visions between Growers and Members
Chapter 17 Chapter 13: Artisanal Cheese and Economies of Sentiment in New England
Chapter 18 Chapter 14: Fast and Slow Food in the Fast Lane: Automobility and the Australian Diet
Chapter 19 Chapter 15: 'Just Java': Roasting Fair Trade Coffee
Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Food at Moderate Speeds
Chapter 3 Chapter 2: From Wild Weeds to Artisanal Cheese
Part 4 Part II: Whole Food Economies: Breaking Down Dichotomies
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Building Lives with Food: Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Food in Yap
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Food for the Malian Middle Class: An Invisible Cuisine
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Taco Bell, Maseca, and Slow Food: A Postmodern Apocalypse for Mexico's Peasant Cuisine?
Chapter 8 Chapter 6: From Hunger Foods to Heritage Foods: Challenges to Food Localization in Lao PDR
Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Tasting the Worlds of Yesterday and Today: Culinary Tourism and Nostalgia Foods in Post-Soviet Russia
Part 10 Part III: The Contradictions of Industrial Food
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Kaiten-zushi and Konbini: Japanese Food Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Chapter 12 Chapter 9: Rice Ball Rivalries: Japanese Convenience Stores and the Appetite of Late Capitalism
Chapter 13 Chapter 10: Global Tastes, Local Contexts: An Ethnographic Account of Fast Food Expansion in San Fernando City, the Philippines
Part 14 Part IV: Transforming Markets and Reconnecting with Consumers
Chapter 15 Chapter 11: From the Bottom-Up: The Global Expansion of Chinese Begetable Trade for New York City Markets
Chapter 16 Chapter 12: The Role of Ideology in New Mexico's CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Organizations: Conflicting Visions between Growers and Members
Chapter 17 Chapter 13: Artisanal Cheese and Economies of Sentiment in New England
Chapter 18 Chapter 14: Fast and Slow Food in the Fast Lane: Automobility and the Australian Diet
Chapter 19 Chapter 15: 'Just Java': Roasting Fair Trade Coffee
