Everyone Eats : : Understanding Food and Culture /

Everyone Eats : : Understanding Food and Culture / / E. N. Anderson.

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Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutriti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Anderson, E. N.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Everyone Eats
  • Introduction to the Second Edition: One More Round
  • 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 and Traditional Medicine
  • 7. Food as Pleasure
  • 8. Food Classification and Communication
  • 9. Me, Myself, and the Others: Food as Social Marker
  • 10. Food and Religion
  • 11. Change
  • 12. Foods and Borders: Ethnicities, Cuisines, and Boundary Crossings
  • 13. Feeding the World
  • Appendix: Explaining It All: Nutritional Anthropology and Food Scholarship
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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