With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food.
Edited by:
J. Klein,
A. Murcott
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 4.139kg
ISBN: 9781137326409
ISBN 10: 1137326409
Series: Consumption and Public Life
Pages: 243
Publication Date: 23 July 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword; Jack Goody 1. Introduction: Cooking, Cuisine and Class and the Anthropology of Food; Jakob A. Klein 2. Meat: A Cultural Biography in (South) China; James L. Watson 3. From Fasting to Fast Food in Kumasi, Ghana; Gracia Clark 4. Civilising Tastes: From Caste to Class in South Indian Foodways; James Staples 5. The Fast and the Fusion: Class, Colonialism and the Remaking of Comida Tipica in Highland Ecuador; Emma-Jayne Abbots 6. The High and the Low in the Making of a Portuguese National Cuisine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Jose Sobral 7. Indigestion in the Long Nineteenth Century: Aspects of English Taste and Anxiety, 1800-1950; Stephen Mennell 8. Eating Out Bangladeshi-Style: Catering and Class in Diasporic East London; Johan Pottier 9. The Taste for Milk in Modern China (1865-1937); Francoise Sabban 10. Drink, Meals and Social Boundaries; Sami Zubaida
Emma-Jayne Abbots, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK Gracia Clark, Indiana University, USA Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin, Ireland Johan Pottier, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Françoise Sabban, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France José Manuel Sobral, University of Lisbon, Portugal James Staples, Brunel University, UK James L. Watson, Harvard University, USA Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Reviews for Food Consumption in Global Perspective: Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody
“This volume is both an appreciation of Jack Goody’s ground-breaking studies on social class and food, and an extension into spaces and systems unexamined in his work. … Highly recommended, this unusually well-integrated volume offers academic researchers, students, and general readers a rich collection of data and thoughtful analysis, while both celebrating a great scholar and providing new territory for exploration.” (Merry I. White, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 23 (3), September, 2017)
