| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 282 pages) |
| Contents |
Gagging on the other: television's gross food challenge / Stacey Jameson -- From Bento to blog: the digital culture of an everyday Japanese meal / Klara Seddon -- Museums, consumption, and the everyday: encountering the colonial "other" through food / Irina D. Mihalache -- From snack to cuisine: the spatialization of Taiwanese foods / Hui-tun Chaung -- "Drinking local": sustainable brewing, alternative food networks, and the politics of valuation / J. Nichol Beckham -- The tension between gourmet and everyday: communicating value while encouraging consumption / Amy Singer -- Cultivating localization through commodity de-fetishism: contours of authenticity and the pursuit of transparency in the local organic agrarian food market / Zack Schrank -- Embodied connections: a new wave of urban agriculture / Bethany Turner and Joanna Hendriks -- The dilemma of dinner: the practice of home cooking in everyday life / Roblyn Rawlins and David Livert -- The phenomonology of food consumption: a developmental view / Matthew Day -- Healthy eating on a budget: negotiating tensions between two discourses / Marianne LeGreco, Stephanie Greene, and Derek Shaw -- Fat eats: a phenomenology of decadence, food, and health / Talia Welsh |
| Summary |
This book is a qualitative/interpretive/phenomenological, and interdisciplinary, examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Each chapter thematically focuses upon a particular food practice and on some key details of the examined practice, or on the practice's social and cultural impact. The book's scope is global, ranging from food production, marketing and consumption practices and trends in the United States to those of other countries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Food habits.
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Food preferences.
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Food industry and trade
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Feeding Behavior
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Food Preferences
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
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Food habits
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Food industry and trade
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Food preferences
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021675691 |
| ISBN |
9780739173114 |
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0739173111 |
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