New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations. Bigger Fish to Fry : : A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples / / David E. Sutton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Sutton, David E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (142 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION: IN THE DANGEROUS KITCHEN --; CHAPTER 1 HOW PEOPLE COOK, WHILE THINKING, FOR EXAMPLE --; CHAPTER 2 “THAT’S NOT COOKING!” Human Creativity or Mechanical Reproduction? --; CHAPTER 3 “TO STEAL A BAD HOUR FROM DEATH” Subjective Risk and Contingent Temporalities in the Greek Kitchen --; CONCLUSION: TAKE THE RISK --; REFERENCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800732247; 9783110997675
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800732247?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David E. Sutton.

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis. Richly illustrated with examples from the author’s anthropology fieldwork in Greece, Bigger Fish to Fry proposes a new approach to the meaning of cooking and how the study of cooking can reshape our understanding of social processes more generally.