Eating Traditional Food

Eating Traditional Food
Author: Brigitte Sebastia
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2016-11-18
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 131728593X


Download Eating Traditional Food Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Due to its centrality in human activities, food is a meaningful object that necessarily participates in any cultural, social and ideological construction and its qualification as 'traditional' is a politically laden value. This book demonstrates that traditionality as attributed to foods goes beyond the notions of heritage and authenticity under which it is commonly formulated. Through a series of case studies from a global range of cultural and geographical areas, the book explores a variety of contexts to reveal the complexity behind the attribution of the term 'traditional' to food. In particular, the volume demonstrates that the definitions put forward by programmes such as TRUEFOOD and EuroFIR (and subsequently adopted by organisations including FAO), which have analysed the perception of traditional foods by individuals, do not adequately reflect this complexity. The concept of tradition being deeply ingrained culturally, socially, politically and ideologically, traditional foods resist any single definition. Chapters analyse the processes of valorisation, instrumentalisation and reinvention at stake in the construction and representation of a food as traditional. Overall the book offers fresh perspectives on topics including definition and regulation, nationalism and identity, and health and nutrition, and will be of interest to students and researchers of many disciplines including anthropology, sociology, politics and cultural studies.


Eating Traditional Food
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Brigitte Sebastia
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-18 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Due to its centrality in human activities, food is a meaningful object that necessarily participates in any cultural, social and ideological construction and it
Eating and Healing
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Andrea Pieroni
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-15 - Publisher: CRC Press

GET EBOOK

Discover neglected wild food sources—that can also be used as medicine! The long-standing notion of “food as medicine, medicine as food,” can be traced ba
Lagom
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Steffi Knowles-Dellner
Categories: Cooking
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-05 - Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

GET EBOOK

Lagom: n. just the right amount, balanced, harmonious. This beautiful, fresh cookbook offers genuine insight into how Swedes eat and cook – with recipes that
Traditional Food Guide for Alaska Native Cancer Survivors
Language: en
Pages: 142
Authors: Christine A. DeCourtney
Categories: Cancer
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

After introductory remarks on nutrition for Native cancer survivors, lists traditional food sources such as moose, porcupine, bird eggs, sea lion, salmon, berri
A Revolution in Eating
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: James E. McWilliams
Categories: Cooking
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

GET EBOOK

History of food in the United States.