{"product_id":"food-ethnographic-encounters-9781847889072","title":"Food: Ethnographic Encounters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFood preparation, consumption, and exchange are eminently social practices, and experiencing another cuisine often provides our first encounter with a different culture. This volume presents fascinating essays about cooking, eating, and sharing food, by anthropologists working in many parts of the world, exploring what they learned by eating with others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are accounts of specific experiences - of cooking in Mombasa, shopping for organic produce in Vienna, eating vegetarian in Vietnam, raising and selling chickens in Hong Kong, and of refugees subsisting on food aid. With a special focus on the experience and challenge of ethnographic fieldwork, the essays cover a wide range of topics in food studies and anthropology, including food safety and food security, cultural diversity and globalization, colonial histories and contemporary identities, and changing ecological, social, and political relations across cultures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFood: Ethnographic Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers a broad view of the vibrancy of local and global food cultures, and provides an accessible introduction to both food studies and contemporary ethnography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent sampler of recent ethnographic work on food. Most of the chapters take you deep into the significance of food and eating in an unfamiliar cultural setting. The book is accessible to anyone interested in food, though it is going to be most useful to serious students. This could be an excellent text for a course in the anthropology of food. -- Richard R. Wilk * Amazon US *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003ci\u003eJohn Borneman\u003c\/i\u003e Introduction \u003ci\u003eLeo Coleman\u003c\/i\u003e 1. Food and Morality in Yemen \u003ci\u003eAnne Meneley, Trent University, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e 2. It All Started with the Bhajias \u003ci\u003eNina Berman, The Ohio State University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 3. The Enchantments of Food in the Lower Amazon, Brazil \u003ci\u003eMark Harris, University of St Andrews, UK\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Live Poultry Markets and Avian Flu in Hong Kong \u003ci\u003eFrédéric Keck, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Revisiting Lao Food: Pain and Commensality \u003ci\u003ePenny Van Esterik, York University, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e 6. In Search of the Elusive Heirloom Tomato: Farms and Farmers' Markets, Fields and Fieldwork \u003ci\u003eJennifer A. Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Keeping out of the Kitchen: Cooking and Power in a Moroccan Household \u003ci\u003eClaire Nicholas, Princeton University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 8. \"Do You Know How to Eat . . .?\" Edible Expertise in Ho Chi Minh City \u003ci\u003eNina Hien, New York University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Learning to Exchange Words and Food in the Marquesas \u003ci\u003eKathleen C. Riley, Queens College, City University of New York, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Eating Vegetarian in Vietnam \u003ci\u003eChristophe Robert, City University of Hong Kong, China\u003c\/i\u003e 11. The Food of Sorrow: Humanitarian Aid to Displaced People \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Dunn, University of Colorado, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  Guide for Further Reading Endmatter","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771599913303,"sku":"9781847889072","price":31.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781847889072.jpg?v=1758728463","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/food-ethnographic-encounters-9781847889072","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}