The Handbook of Food and Anthropology.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Anthropology, Food and Modern Life -- HISTORY OF FOOD STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- THE FUTURE OF FOOD ETHNOGRAPHY -- THIS HANDBOOK -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part 1 Food, Self and Other -- Chapter 1 Culinary Stereotypes: The Gustatory Politics of Gastro-Essentialism -- FOOD AND STEREOTYPING: ANALYTICAL ISSUES -- STEREOTYPES AND HISTORY -- SPICE BOYS: THE HIDDEN DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZED FOOD TRADITIONS -- WHITHER GASTRO-ESSENTIALISM? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 Muslim Foodways -- THE QUR ' AN ON FOOD AND EATING -- DEMOGRAPHY -- SHARED PRACTICES IN THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF MUSLIM FOODWAYS -- DIVERGENCE IN THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF MUSLIM FOODWAYS -- DELOCALIZED MUSLIM FOODWAYS -- REPERSONALIZATION OF MUSLIM FOODWAYS -- MUSLIM FOODWAYS AND THE FUTURE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Food, Commensality and Caste in South Asia -- INTRODUCTION -- -- DEFINING CASTE -- CASTE BOUNDARIES AND FOOD TRANSACTIONS -- CASTE AND TYPES OF FOOD -- FROM THE ONTOLOGICAL TO THE POLITICO-ECONOMIC -- BEYOND CASTE -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 Jewish Foods at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- FAITH AND FOOD: ' EATING THE BOOK ' -- THE COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL REPUBLICAN CONTRACT IN THE KITCHEN AND ON THE TABLE -- WHAT IS ' TRADITIONAL ' SEPHARDIC FRENCH CUISINE? 21 -- A CALENDAR OF JEWISH EATING -- THE SEPHARDIC VERSION OF THE ' RAW AND THE COOKED ' : THE DIVISION OF LABOUR OF COOKING, MENU PREPARATION AND CONSUMPTION -- THE TRANSLATION EFFECT: FROM JUDEO-ARABIC TO FRENCH -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS: GLOBALIZATION OF JEWISH CUISINE -- BY WAY OF CONCLUSION: THE POLITICS OF RELIGIOUS FOOD AND IDENTITY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 5 Approaches to Food and Migration: Rootedness, Being and Belonging -- INTRODUCTION -- BEING AND BELONGING: MIGRANT FOOD SPACES -- ACCULTURATION, APPROPRIATION AND HYBRIDIZATION: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MIGRANT AND HOSTS -- UPHOLDING HOME: GENDER, GENERATIONS AND FOOD LABOUR -- RETHINKING FOOD AND MIGRATION: THE FLOWS BETWEEN HERE AND THERE -- MIGRATION, FOOD AND THE BODY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 Local Food, Local Specialties and Local Identity -- THE LOCAL SPECIALTIES OF HOI AN -- BANH BAO BANH VAC AND THE HOIANESE-CHINESE IDENTITY -- ON SIZZLING PANCAKES AND BEING LOCAL -- STRANGERS AT HOME: THE LOCAL SPECIALTIES OF THE NEXT DOOR VILLAGE -- THE VARIOUS MEANINGS OF ' LOCAL FOOD ' -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Part 2 Food Security, Nutrition and Food Safety -- Chapter 7 Observer, Critic, Activist: Anthropological Encounters with Food Insecurity -- ANTHROPOLOGY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND ACTIVISM -- FOOD (IN)SECURITY DEFINED AND MEASURED -- AGRIBUSINESS AND LIVELIHOODS -- GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND THE DEBATE ON GM CROPS -- FOOD SECURITY IN PROTRACTED CRISES -- URBAN FOOD SECURITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- References -- Chapter 8 Feeding Farmers and Feeding the Nation in Modern Malaysia: The Political Economy of Food and Taste -- REPRODUCING THE MODERN PEASANTRY -- GETTING BY IN KELANTAN: PADI FARMING BEFORE THE GREEN REVOLUTION -- RICE AS SELF IN MALAYSIA: FEEDING, SHARING AND RECIPROCITY -- KELANTAN ' S LONG GREEN REVOLUTION -- RESOLVING CRISES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Children ' s Food -- INTRODUCTION -- HOW ' CHILDREN ' S FOOD ' MAKES CHILDREN -- HOW FOOD DEFINES FAMILIES AND PARENTHOOD -- CHILD SOCIALIZATION AND POWER -- THE POLITICS OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY -- THE POLITICS OF SCHOOL FOOD -- GLOBALIZING CHILDREN ' S FOOD -- WHITHER CHILDREN ' S FOOD?.

NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 Cow ' s Milk as Children ' s Food: Insights from India and the United States -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL CONTEXT: MEDICAL SYSTEMS, MILK AND THE FEEDING OF YOUNG CHILDREN -- MILK AND CHILD GROWTH: MEANINGS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY -- BODY SIZE AND MILK: MEANINGS OF GROWTH -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 Food, Borders and Disease -- INTRODUCTION -- BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) -- SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS) -- INFANT FORMULA PARALLEL TRADING, 2008 - 13 4 -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 Rethinking Food and its Eaters: Opening the Black Boxes of Safety and Nutrition -- WHAT IS CHEESE? -- PROCESSING BLACK BOXES: THE HAZARDS OF ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL REGULATION -- SWALLOWING BLACK BOXES: THE INDIGESTIBILITY OF NUTRITIONAL GUIDELINES -- BEYOND EATING AS INCORPORATION: MATERIALIZING LOCAL ECOLOGIES AND BIOLOGIES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13 Food Provisioning and Foodways in Postsocialist Societies: Food as Medium for Social Trust and Global Belonging -- AGONY AND DESIRE: FOOD PROVISIONING IN SOCIALIST AND POSTSOCIALIST EUROPE -- EVERYDAY FOOD PRACTICES AFTER SOCIALISM: QUALITY, RISK AND CONSUMER COMPETENCE -- GLOBALIZING FOODWAYS IN POSTSOCIALIST EUROPE: IDENTITY POLITICS, VALUES AND MORALITY -- REGULATION, THE STATE AND GOVERNANCE -- FOOD AS MEDIUM FOR RESTORING SOCIAL TRUST IN A GLOBAL WORLD -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14 Feeding the Revolution: Public Mess Halls and Coercive Commensality in Maoist China -- POLITICAL BACKGROUND: THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD -- PUBLIC MESS HALL CAMPAIGN: THE COLLECTIVIZATION OF EATING -- WOMEN ' S LABOUR AND COMMUNIST CONSCIOUSNESS -- TO ATTACK THE FAMILY, DESTROY THE KITCHEN -- COMMUNIST UTOPIA: ALL YOU CAN EAT, THREE MEALS A DAY.

TIME, LEISURE AND THE REGIMENTATION OF DAILY LIFE -- AFTERMATH: THE POST-LEAP FAMINE -- CONCLUSIONS: COERCIVE COMMENSALITY AND THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part 3 Food as Craft, Industry and Ethics -- Chapter 15 Church Cookbooks: Changing Foodways on the American Prairie -- TRENDS IN AMERICAN COOKING -- INNOVATORS AND CRITICS: ' EATING LIKE AN AMERICAN ' -- HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS: COOKBOOKS AND NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING -- HENRY COUNTY FOODWAYS -- CHURCH COOKBOOKS: LOCAL ADAPTATIONS AND NATIONAL TRENDS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 16 The Anthropology of Cooking -- INTRODUCTION -- ANTHROPOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON COOKING -- ETHNOGRAPHIC FOREBEARS -- WHAT IS COOKING? -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 17 Supermarket Expansion, Informal Retail and Food Acquisition Strategies: An Example from Rural South Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SUPERMARKET EXPANSION -- SUPERMARKET EXPANSION IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA -- RETAIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE SYNCHRONIZATION OF FOOD NEEDS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 18 Ethical Consumption: The Moralities and Politics of Food -- LOCATING ETHICAL CONSUMPTION -- THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: PRODUCTIONS, DISTRIBUTIONS, MORALITIES -- ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF ETHICS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 19 Artisanal Foods and the Cultural Economy: Perspectives on Craft, Heritage, Authenticity and Reconnection 1 -- AUTHENTICITY, HERITAGE AND ARTISANAL FOODS -- THE IDEA OF ARTISANAL FOODS -- ARTISANAL FOODS IN THE CULTURAL ECONOMY -- ' DISSONANCE AND CONTESTATION ' , OR, DISCONNECTION, MISTRUST AND INAUTHENTICITY IN THE HERITAGIZATION OF ARTISANAL FOODS -- THE REAL THING? ARTISANAL FOODS AND THE CRAFTING OF CULTURE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 20 Practising Food Anthropology : Moving Food Studies from the Classroom to the Boardroom -- INTRODUCTION: GOING DOWN THE CORPORATE RABBIT HOLE -- TRANSLATING FIELDS, TRANSLATING METHODS -- RETHINKING THE FIELD AS AN EXERCISE IN TRANSLATION -- WHAT IS THE ANTHROPOLOGIST ' S ROLE IN THE CORPORATE SETTING? -- TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF CORPORATE FOOD -- CAUTIONARY TALES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Afterword -- Index.

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