Anthropology of Food
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Alcohol
Social Drinking in Cultural Context
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context critically examines alcohol use across cultures and through time. This short text is a framework for students to self-consciously examine their beliefs about and use of alcohol, and a companion text for teaching the primary concepts of anthropology to...
Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Food and Culture
A Reader, 3rd Edition
The classic book that helped to define and legitimize the field of food and culture studies is now available, with major revisions, in a specially affordable e-book version (978-0-203-07975-1). The third edition includes 40 original essays and reprints of previously published classics under...
Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Coffee Culture
Local Experiences, Global Connections
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science...
Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
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Re-imagining Milk
Cultural and Biological Perspectives
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
Written explicitly for undergraduates, Re-imagining Milk demonstrates how a particular commodity can be used to illustrate ethnocentric beliefs about the universal goodness of milk; biological variation in human populations; political and economic processes that inform dietary policies, nutrition...
Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
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Feeding Desire
Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People
While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten...
Published October 28th 2003 by Routledge
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The Anthropology of Food and Body
Gender, Meaning and Power
The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating...
Published July 19th 1999 by Routledge