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The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating - a Reader
The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world.
Uses food as a central idiom for teaching about culture and addresses broad themes such as globalization, capitalism, market economies, and consumption practices
Spanning 5 continents, features studies from 11 countries—Japan, China, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Burkina Faso, Chile, Trinidad, Mexico, and the United States
Offers discussion of such hot topics as sushi, fast food, gourmet foods, and food scares and contamination
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Prehistoric Life - Evolution and the Fossil Record
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The Anthropology of Politics - a Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critique
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In Search of Ancient North America
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Living Memory - the Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town
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A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication- Essential Readings
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