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The story of food in the human past
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ISBN: 9780817320829 0817320822 9780817359850 0817359850 9780817393380 0817393382 Year: 2021 Publisher: Tuscaloosa

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"This work uses case studies from recent archaeological research to tell the story of food in human prehistory. Beginning with the earliest members of our genus, Robyn E. Cutright investigates the role of food in shaping who we are as humans during the emergence of modern Homo sapiens and through major transitions in human prehistory such as the domestication of plants and animals and the emergence of complex societies. Part I of this volume discusses how food shaped humans in evolutionary terms. Chapters consider chimpanzees as our closest living relatives to understand what makes human eating unique, the use of fire to cook, and the origins of cuisine as culture and adaptation through the example of Neanderthals. Part II describes how cuisine was reshaped when humans domesticated plants and animals and examines how food expressed ancient social structures and identities such as gender, class, and ethnicity. It shows how food took on special meaning in feasts and religious rituals and also pays attention to the daily preparation and consumption of food as central to human society in the past. The engaging chapters synthesize recent paleoanthropological and archaeological research on ancient diet and cuisine. Cutright complements her research on daily diet, culinary practice, and special-purpose mortuary and celebratory meals in the Andes with comparative case studies from around the world to offer readers a holistic view of what we ate in the past and what that reveals about who we are"--


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Conversations in food studies
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ISBN: 0887555446 9780887555442 9780887555428 088755542X 0887557872 9780887557873 Year: 2016 Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press,

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Few things are as important as the food we eat. "Conversations in Food Studies" demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-your-own-wine movement, to urban household waste, are theproduct of collaborating teams of interdisciplinary authors. Readers are invited to engage and reflect on the theories and practices underlying some of the most important issues facing the emerging field of foodstudies today.Conversations in Food Studies brings to the table thirteen original contributions organized around the themes of representation, governance, disciplinary boundaries, and, finally, learning through food. This collection offers an important and groundbreaking approach to food studies as it examines and reworks the boundaries that have traditionally structured the academy and that underlie much of food studies literature.


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Culture, environment and food to prevent Vitamin A deficiency
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ISBN: 0963552279 1552504409 088936768X 9780889367685 9780963552273 9781552504406 1282054791 9781282054790 9786612054792 Year: 1997 Publisher: Boston : Ottawa : International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries ; International Development Research Centre,

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Making Food in Local and Global Contexts
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ISBN: 9789811910487 Year: 2022 Publisher: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Springer

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Nutritional anthropology
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ISBN: 084514216X Year: 1987 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Liss


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Manger en europe : patrimoines, échanges, identités
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ISBN: 9789052017389 9052017387 Year: 2011 Volume: 1 Publisher: Bruxelles : Bern Berlin :. Peter Lang,

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Si les institutions communautaires de l'Europe permettent aujourd'hui d'identifier un espace politique et économique, qu'en est-il du sentiment d'appartenance des Européens à une civilisation partagée ? En dépit de nombreux traits d'union, leurs identités et leurs cultures matérielles demeurent multiples. Ce premier livre de la collection "L'Europe alimentaire" s'inscrit dans une dynamique croissante de l'intérêt porté par des publics divers et nombreux aux pratiques de l'alimentation. Il réunit les positions de spécialistes des cultures alimentaires sur la notion, très complexe à définir, des identités alimentaires. Cet ouvrage croise l'analyse de l'anthropologie et de l'histoire pour présenter la formation des patrimoines gastronomiques, les processus d'échanges culinaires et l'émergence, à différentes époques et dans plusieurs pays de recettes, de produits et de manières de manger. Il s'en dégage que les Européens ont su à la fois développer des traditions locales très marquées et faire confluer leurs goûts par la circulation des marchandises, des hommes et des idées. La stratégie contemporaine, et capitale pour l'Europe, de valorisation par la qualité de ses produits considérés comme typiques, trouve dans ce récit les sources originelles d'un patrimoine commun aux Européens.

Sociologies de l'alimentation : les mangeurs et l'espace social alimentaire.
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ISBN: 2130506437 9782130506430 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris PUF


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The Evolution of Hominin Diets
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ISBN: 9781402096990 9781402096983 Year: 2009 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands

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This volume brings together new and important research from the top experts in hominid diets across multiple fields. The objective of the volume is to explore if there is a consensus between the different methods, allowing us to better understand the nature of hominin dietary strategies through time. Contributions focus on modern studies, faunal studies, physical anthropology, archaeological studies, and isotopic studies, all aimed at answering the major questions of the evolution of hominid diets, such as: meat-eating emergence, hunting vs. scavenging, hunting technologies, and resource intensification in later humans.

Food preferences and taste : continuity and change
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ISBN: 9781571819703 1571819584 1571819703 1782381880 Year: 2006 Volume: 2 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books,

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Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes socialand biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the


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Cheap meat : flap food nations in the Pacific Islands
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ISBN: 1282359827 9786612359828 0520945972 9780520945975 9781282359826 9780520260924 0520260929 9780520260931 0520260937 661235982X Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Cheap Meat follows the controversial trade in inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb or mutton, called "flaps," from the farms of New Zealand and Australia to their primary markets in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji. Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington address the evolution of the meat trade itself along with the changing practices of exchange in Papua New Guinea. They show that flaps-which are taken from the animals' bellies and are often 50 percent fat-are not mere market transactions but evidence of the social nature of nutrition policies, illustrating and reinforcing Pacific Islanders' presumed second-class status relative to the white populations of Australia and New Zealand.

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