Author: Carolyn Korsmeyer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2005-10-07
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781845200602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Eve's apple to Proust's madeleine to today's culinary tourism, food looms large in culture. Debates about health and nutrition are common in news reports. Yet despite its fundamental relationship to food, taste is mysteriously absent from most of these discussions. The flavors of foods permeate social relations, religious and other occasions. Charged with memory, emotion, desire and aversion, taste is arguably the most evocative of the senses. The Taste Culture Reader explores the sensuous dimensions of eating and drinking, from the physiology of the tongue to the embodiment of social identities and enactment of ceremonial meanings. This book will interest anyone seeking to understand more fully the importance of food and flavor in human experience.
Author: Carole Counihan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13: 0415521033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This reader reveals how food habits and beliefs both present a microcosm of any culture and contribute to our understanding of human behaviour. Particular attention is given to how men and women define themselves differently through food choices.
Author: Jim Drobnick
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-05
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13:
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Author: David Howes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-05
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1000515435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns linguistic and textual models of interpretation and places sensory experience at the forefront of cultural analysis. The senses are gateways of knowledge, instruments of power, sources of pleasure and pain - and they are subject to dramatically different constructions in different societies and periods. Empire of the Senses charts the new terrains opened up by the sensual revolution in scholarship, as it takes the reader into the sensory worlds of the medieval witch and the postmodern mall, a Japanese tea ceremony and a Boston shelter for the homeless. This compelling revisioning of history and cultural studies sparkles with wit and insight and is destined to become a landmark in the field.
Author: Katharina Vester
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-10-02
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0520284984
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A Taste of Power is an investigation of the crucial role culinary texts and practices played in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies since the founding of the United States. Nutritional advice and representations of food and eating, including cookbooks, literature, magazines, newspapers, still life paintings, television shows, films, and the internet, have helped throughout American history to circulate normative claims about citizenship, gender performance, sexuality, class privilege, race, and ethnicity, while promising an increase in cultural capital and social mobility to those who comply with the prescribed norms. The study examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, as points of cultural resistance against hegemonic norms, especially in shaping dominant ideas of nationalism, gender, and sexuality, suggesting that eating right is a gateway to becoming an American, a good citizen, an ideal man, or a perfect mother. Cookbooks, as a low-prestige literary form, became the largely unheralded vehicles for women to participate in nation-building before they had access to the vote or public office, for middle-class authors to assert their class privileges, for men to claim superiority over women even in the kitchen, and for Lesbian authors to reinscribe themselves into the heteronormative economy of culinary culture. The book engages in close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Christopher D. Geist
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780879720940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Barbara Gimla Shortridge
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780847685073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compilation of articles examining the culture, ethnicity, socioeconomics, geography, and demography of American food.
Author: Mark Michael Smith
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
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