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E.N. AndersonPublication Details
BookNew York University Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GT2850 .A6644 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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?The Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review “Everyone Eats is anthropology at its best, an exceptional blend of biological and cultural explanation that reveals our relationship with food and eating. ?Gastronomica Everyone eats, but rarely do we ask why or investigate why we eat what we eat. Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Introduction : everyone eats
- 1. Obligatory omnivores
- 2. Human nutritional needs
- 3. More needs than one
- 4. The senses : taste, smell, and the adapted mind
- 5. Basics : environment and economy
- 6. Food as pleasure
- 7. Food classification and communication
- 8. Me, myself, and the others : food as social marker
- 9. Food and traditional medicine
- 10. Food and religion
- 11. Change
- 12. Foods and borders : ethnicities, cuisines, and boundary crossings
- 13. Feeding the world
- App. Explaining it all : nutritional anthropology and food scholarship
ISBN
- 0814704964
- 0814704956
- 9780814704967
- 9780814704950
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