The Anthropology of Food and Body Carole M. Counihan

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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.

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The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power by Carole M. Counihan

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.

The Anthropology of Food and Body Reviews

"The Anthropology of Food and Bodyoffers a bountiful, textured collection of essays, some previously published, some part of the author's ongoing work, some written expressly for this volume." -- Gastronomica
"This collection...should be of special interest to readers in women's studies, gender studies, and foods-and nutrition studies...All levels." -- Choice

About Carole M. Counihan

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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NLS9780415921930

ISBN 13

9780415921930

ISBN 10

0415921937

Title

The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power by Carole M. Counihan

Author

Carole M. Counihan

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Year published

1999-08-12

Number of pages

264

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