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Writing Food History: A Global Perspective (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847888082)
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xThe vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock of three decades of groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, the book examines two broad questions: What has history contributed to the development of food studies? How have other disciplines - sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, science, art history - influenced writing on food history in terms of approach, methodology, controversies, and knowledge of past foodways?
Essays by twelve prominent scholars provide a compendium of global and multicultural answers to these questions. The contributors critically assess food history writing in the United States, Africa, Mexico and the Spanish Diaspora, India, the Ottoman Empire, the Far East - China, Japan and Korea - Europe, Jewish communities and the Middle East. Several historical eras are covered: the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, Early Modern Europe and the Modern day. The book is a unique addition to the growing literature on food history. It is required reading for anyone seeking a detailed discussion of food history research in diverse times and places.Author: Kyri W. Claflin
ISBN-10: 1847888089
ISBN-13: 9781847888082
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2012
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
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Choice 02/01/2013
By Kyri W. Claflin
xKyri W. Claflin teaches at Boston University and is the author of numerous articles including 'Les Halles and the Moral Market: Frigophobia Strikes in the Belly of Paris, ' in the Oxford Symposium volume Food & Morality.
Peter Scholliers is professor of Contemporary History at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium. He co-edited (with Fabio Parasecoli) A Cultural History of Food (2011).Recently Viewed Products
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