Description
Book SynopsisThis book is a qualitative, interpretive, phenomenological, and interdisciplinary, examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Each chapter thematically focuses upon a particular food practice and on some key details of the examined practice, or on the practiceâs social and cultural impact.
Trade ReviewThe study of foodways is a fascinating one. Following the cultural turn in the social sciences and the emergence of the field of cultural studies, scholars have turned to a focus on cultural practices, including everyday life practices. One of such practice is the practice of food. Food for humans remains a means and a rich expression of culture. A an everyday life practice, food can be examined in a wide variety of ways. This book examines food and food practices and their meanings in the contemporary world. It includes a number of approaches and topics and highlights aspects of food production, distribution, consumption and the discourse on food. Written by experts in the field, this book shows the everyday practices of food and focuses on the relationships between body, eating practices and food. * Wonderpedia *
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part 1: Food Meanings and Representations Chapter 1: Gagging on the Other: Television’s Gross Food Challenge Chapter 2: From Bento to Blog: The Digital Culture of an Everyday Japanese Meal Chapter 3: Museums, Consumption and the Everyday: Encountering the Colonial “Other” through Food Chapter 4: From Smack to Cuisine: The Spatialization of Taiwanese Foods Chapter 5: Drinking Local: Sustainable Brewing, Alternative Food Networks, and the Politics of Valuation Part 2: Food Practice Case Studies Chapter 6: Both Luxurious and Ordinary: Everyday Consumption and the Marketing of Indonesian Food Products in America Chapter 7: Cultivating Localization through Commodity De-Fetishism: Contours of Authenticity and the Pursuit of Transparency in the Local Organic Agrarian Food Market Chapter 8: Embodied Connections: A New Wave of Urban Agriculture Chapter 9: The Dilemma of Dinner: The Practice of Home Cooking in Everyday Life Part 3: Food Consumption Practices and The Body Chapter 10: The Phenomenology of Food Consumption: A Developmental View Chapter 11: Healthy Eating on a Budget: Negotiating Tensions Between Two Discourses Chapter 12: Fat Eats: A Phenomenology of Decadence, Food, and Health Index About the Contributors
