Food and culture : a reader / edited by Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword from The Gastronomical Me -- Introduction -- Food, Meaning, and Voice -- 1. The Changing Significance of Food -- 2. Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption -- 3. The Culinary Triangle -- 4. Deciphering a Meal -- 5. The Semiotics of Food in the Bible -- 6. The Abominable Pig -- 7. Traditional Medical Values of Food -- Commensality and Fasting: Giving, Receiving, and Refusing Food -- 8. Food as a Cultural Construction -- 9. The Psychoanalytic Study of Infantile Feeding Disturbances -- 10. Nutritional Processes and Personality Development among the Gurage of Ethiopia -- 11. Hunger, Anxiety, and Ritual: Deprivation and Spirit Possession among the Gurage of Ethiopia -- 12. Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women -- 13. The Appetite as Voice -- 14. Conflict and Deference -- Food, Body, and Culture -- 15. An Anthropological Approach to the Problem of Obesity -- 16. Body Image and Self-Awareness -- 17. Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture -- 18. Que Gordita -- 19. The Sweetness of Fat: Health, Procreation, and Sociability in Rural Jamaica -- 20. Soul, Black Women, and Food -- The Political Economy of Food: Commodification and Scarcity -- 21. Bread as World: Food Habits and Social Relations in Modernizing Sardinia -- 22. Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus -- 23. On the Civilizing of Appetite -- 24. Industrial Food: Towards the Development of a World Cuisine -- 25. Time, Sugar, and Sweetness -- 26. The Politics of Breastfeeding: An Advocacy Perspective -- 27. Hunger, Malnutrition, and Poverty in the Contemporary United States: Some Observations on Their Social and Cultural Context -- 28. Beyond the Myths of Hunger: What We Can Do? -- Permissions -- Contributors -- Index.

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