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Book SynopsisEmma-Jayne Abbots is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK and Research Associate at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, UK.
Trade ReviewThe Agency of Eating challenges readers to think about food as both meaning and matter; as cultural practice but also as, well, food – ”we also eat it”, Emma-Jayne Abbots reminds us. This discussion is animated by interventions into the subject of agency, who (and perhaps even what) has it and to what effect. Abbots’ book is not simply about food but also about life itself and the struggle over the type of lives deemed worthy of living...and eating. * Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, USA *
An original contribution is in the way the book analyses the food/body relations across a range of ‘authorities’. Such a book is needed. * Susanne Højlund, Aarhus University, Denmark *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introducing the Agency of Eating 1. Eating Bodies and Bodies of Eating: Theoretical Foundations 2. Eating at Home: Kinned, Shared and Acquired Bodies 3. Eating Away from Home: Displaced and (Re)Rooted Bodies 4. Eating Heritage Foods: Proximate and Distanced Bodies 5. Eating 'Global Food' and its Alternatives: Anxious, Obscured and Active Bodies 6. Eating for Self and Society: Responsible, Acceptable and Abject Bodies 7. Eating Futures: Reflections and Directions Bibliography Index
