The Handbook of Food and Anthropology
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The Handbook of Food and Anthropology

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The Handbook of Food and Anthropology

About this book

Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Award 2017. Interest in the anthropology of food has grown significantly in recent years. This is the first handbook to provide a detailed overview of all major areas of the field. 20 original essays by leading figures in the discipline examine traditional areas of research as well as cutting-edge areas of inquiry. Divided into three parts – Food, Self and Others; Food Security, Nutrition and Food Safety; Food as Craft, Industry and Ethics – the book covers topics such as identity, commensality, locality, migration, ethical consumption, artisanal foods, and children's food. Each chapter features rich ethnography alongside wider analysis of the subject. Internationally renowned scholars offer insights into their core areas of specialty. Examples include Michael Herzfeld on culinary stereotypes, David Sutton on how to conduct an anthropology of cooking, Johan Pottier on food insecurity, and Melissa Caldwell on practicing food anthropology. The book also features exceptional geographic and cultural diversity, with chapters on South Asia, South Africa, the United States of America, post-socialist societies, Maoist China, and Muslim and Jewish foodways. Invaluable as a reference as well as for teaching, The Handbook of Food and Anthropology serves to define this increasingly important field. An essential resource for researchers and students in anthropology and food studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Introduction: Anthropology, Food and Modern Life
  8. Part 1 Food, Self and Other
  9. Chapter 1 Culinary Stereotypes: The Gustatory Politics of Gastro-Essentialism
  10. Chapter 2 Muslim Foodways
  11. Chapter 3 Food, Commensality and Caste in South Asia
  12. Chapter 4 Jewish Foods at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
  13. Chapter 5 Approaches to Food and Migration: Rootedness, Being and Belonging
  14. Chapter 6 Local Food, Local Specialties and Local Identity
  15. Part 2 Food Security, Nutrition and Food Safety
  16. Chapter 7 Observer, Critic, Activist: Anthropological Encounters with Food Insecurity
  17. Chapter 8 Feeding Farmers and Feeding the Nation in Modern Malaysia: The Political Economy of Food and Taste
  18. Chapter 9 Children’s Food
  19. Chapter 10 Cow’s Milk as Children’s Food: Insights from India and the United States
  20. Chapter 11 Food, Borders and Disease
  21. Chapter 12 Rethinking Food and its Eaters: Opening the Black Boxes of Safety and Nutrition
  22. Chapter 13 Food Provisioning and Foodways in Postsocialist Societies: Food as Medium for Social Trust and Global Belonging
  23. Chapter 14 Feeding the Revolution: Public Mess Halls and Coercive Commensality in Maoist China
  24. Part 3 Food as Craft, Industry and Ethics
  25. Chapter 15 Church Cookbooks: Changing Foodways on the American Prairie
  26. Chapter 16 The Anthropology of Cooking
  27. Chapter 17 Supermarket Expansion, Informal Retail and Food Acquisition Strategies: An Example from Rural South Africa
  28. Chapter 18 Ethical Consumption: The Moralities and Politics of Food
  29. Chapter 19 Artisanal Foods and the Cultural Economy: Perspectives on Craft, Heritage, Authenticity and Reconnection1
  30. Chapter 20 Practising Food Anthropology: Moving Food Studies from the Classroom to the Boardroom
  31. Afterword
  32. Index