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Counihan, Carole M. M.

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Synopsis

The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating the relationship between food, the body, and cultural notions of gender.

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About the Author

Carole M. Counihan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Millersville University. She is co-editor of Food and Culture (Routledge, 1997), and of Food and Gender: Identity and Power (1998).

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9780415921923: The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power

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ISBN 10:  0415921929 ISBN 13:  9780415921923
Publisher: Routledge, 1999
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