| Description |
vi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; v. 24 |
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Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) monographs ; no. 24 |
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Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; v. 24
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Food at moderate speeds / Sidney Mintz -- Ch. 2. From wild weeds to artisanal cheese / Richard Wilk -- Ch. 3. Building lives with food : production, circulation, and consumption of food in Yap / James A. Egan, Michael L. Burton and Karen L. Nero -- Ch. 4. Food for the Malian middle class : an invisible cuisine / Dolores Koenig -- Ch. 5. Taco Bell, Maseca, and slow food : a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- Ch. 6. From hunger foods to heritage foods : challenges to food localization in Lao PDR / Penny Van Esterik -- Ch. 7. Tasting the worlds of yesterday and today : culinary tourism and nostalgia foods in post-Soviet Russia / Melissa L. Caldwell -- Ch. 8. Kaiten-zushi and Konbini : Japanese food culture in the age of mechanical reproduction / Theodore C. Bestor -- Ch. 9. Rice ball rivalries : Japanese convenience stores and the appetite of late capitalism / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw -- Ch. 10. Global tastes, local contexts : an ethnographic account of fast food expansion in San Fernando City, the Philippines / Ty Matejowsky -- Ch. 11. From the bottom up : the global expansion of Chinese vegetable trade for New York City markets / Valerie Imbruce -- Ch. 12. The role of ideology in New Mexico's CSA (community supported agriculture) organizations : conflicting visions between growers and members / Lois Stanford -- Ch. 13. Artisanal cheese and economies of sentiment in New England / Heather Paxson -- Ch. 14. Fast and slow food in the fast lane : automobility and the Australian diet / Cathy Banwell, Jane Dixon, Sarah Hinde and Heather McIntyre -- Ch. 15. Just Java : roasting fair trade coffee / Sarah Lyon |
| Analysis |
Fast food |
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Global food system |
| Notes |
A collection of papers presented at a conference |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Food industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Convenience foods -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Cookbooks -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Food habits -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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International economic integration -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Wilk, Richard R.
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| LC no. |
2006010813 |
| ISBN |
9780759109148 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0759109141 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780759109155 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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075910915X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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