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In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in archaeological and ethnographic perspective.... Læs mere
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This compelling study of two centuries of British government food programs explores the political, economic and... Læs mere
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The story of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century. Weaving together the voices of... Læs mere
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This edition of the go-to book on theology and food expands key insights on the spirituality of eating, the importance of good agricultural practice, and the prospects... Læs mere
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In this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual identities.
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This Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval... Læs mere
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Guthman tells the story of how California's strawberry industry came to rely on soil fumigants, and how that reliance reverberated throughout the rest of the fruit's production system.
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Captures the language that explains culinary practices. To prove its case, this book draws on a range of cultural documents from interviews, cookbooks, and novels to comic strips, essays, and films.
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Offers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. This book traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to international icon of Japanese culture.
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An ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya that examines the effects of an epochal shift in their... Læs mere
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Takes on the 'obesity epidemic,' challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. This title examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent 'obesity' are sensible, efficacious, or ethical.
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Calories - too few or too many - are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today's globalized world. This title explains in clear and accessible language what calories are and how they work, both biologically and politically.