Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture
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Everyone eats, but rarely do we ask why or investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic. E. N. Anderson explains the economics of food in the globalization era, food's relationship to religion, medicine, and ethnicity as well as offers suggestions on how to end hunger, starvation, and malnutrition. Everyone Eats feeds our need to understand human ecology by explaining the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0814704964
ISBN13:9780814704967
Release Date:December 2008
Publisher:New York University Press
Length:295 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Book was in excellent condition and exactly what was expected, and recieved in a timely manner.
Plenty of cultural insights and background history
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
There's a strong relationship between biological need and culture: a relationship emphasized by E.N. Anderson, professor of anthropology at University of California Riverside, in his survey Everyone Eats: Understanding Food And Culture. Discussions range from the aesthetics of eating and different sensory perceptions between cultures to the needs for foods as displayed in differing literature of cultures, and surveys of how food fads change over time. Plenty of cultural insights and background history lend to a survey particularly recommended for college-level students of anthropology and social science.
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