Eating Culture (Paperback)

Ron Scapp

ISBN 10: 0791438600 / ISBN 13: 9780791438602

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1998

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Paperback. Explores the relationship between eating and culture from a variety of perspectives, including anthropology, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, race studies, architecture, and AIDS discourse. Explores the relationship between eating and culture from a variety of perspectives, including anthropology, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, race studies, architecture, and AIDS discourse. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eating Culture (Paperback)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791438600
• ISBN 13: 9780791438602
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Explores the relationship between eating and culture from a variety of perspectives, including anthropology, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, race studies, architecture, and AIDS discourse.

Eating has never been simple, and contemporary eating practices seem more complicated than ever, demanding a multidimensional analysis that strives not for a reductive overview but for a complex understanding. Eating Culture offers a number of diverse outlooks on some of the prominent practices and issues associated with the domain of eating in contemporary culture. Lavishly illustrated with nineteen photographs and eleven historical postcards, the book brings to bear contemporary, interdisciplinary thinking on a topic that has been widely but not critically discussed in the media.

[Contributors include Carol Adams, Marianna Beck, Susan Bordo, Priscilla Ferguson, Joanne Finkelstein, Dianna Fuss, Deborah R. Geis, bell hooks, David F. Krell, Steven F. Kruger, Alfonso Lingis, Mary Lukanuski, Gary Paul Nabhan, Ed Schiffer, Stephen Steinberg, Jeff Weinstein, Allen S. Weiss, Doris S. Witt, and Sharon Zukin.]

About the Author

Ron Scapp is Director of the Graduate Program in Urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, The Bronx, where he teaches education and philosophy. Brian Seitz teaches philosophy at Babson College, and is the author of The Trace of Political Representation, also published by SUNY Press.