The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating: A Reader

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The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world. Uses food as a central idiom for teaching about culture and addresses broad themes such as globalization capitalism market economies and consumption practices Spanning 5 continents features studies from 11 countriesJapan China Russia Ukraine Germany France Burkina Faso Chile Trinidad Mexico and the United States Offers discussion of such hot topics as sushi fast food gourmet foods and food scares and contamination