Pat Caplan

Feasts, Fasts, Famine

Food for Thought

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this Lecture, I shall seek to do two things. One is to show how an anthropological approach can give us particular kinds of understanding about people's food choices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 36
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 54g
• ISBN-13: 9780854963843
• ISBN-10: 0854963847
• Artikelnr.: 21565657

Autorenporträt

Pat Caplan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Why Food? Anthropological Approaches to Food
Part I Feasts
Part II Fasts
Dieting
Eating Disorders
Gender and Food Consumption
Fads- Vegetarianism
Part III FAmine: Starvation
Malnutrition and Hunger; Famine in Africa
Hunger and Malnutrition in the West
No More Meals? Conclusion