Thomas M. Conroy

Food and Everyday Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a qualitative, interpretive, phenomenological, and interdisciplinary, examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Each chapter thematically focuses upon a particular food practice and on some key details of the examined practice, or on the practice's social and cultural impact.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780739186145
• ISBN-10: 0739186140
• Artikelnr.: 42999668

Autorenporträt

By Thomas M. Conroy

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Part 1: Food Meanings and Representations Chapter 1:
Gagging on the Other: Television's Gross Food Challenge Chapter 2: From
Bento to Blog: The Digital Culture of an Everyday Japanese Meal Chapter 3:
Museums, Consumption and the Everyday: Encountering the Colonial "Other"
through Food Chapter 4: From Smack to Cuisine: The Spatialization of
Taiwanese Foods Chapter 5: Drinking Local: Sustainable Brewing, Alternative
Food Networks, and the Politics of Valuation Part 2: Food Practice Case
Studies Chapter 6: Both Luxurious and Ordinary: Everyday Consumption and
the Marketing of Indonesian Food Products in America Chapter 7: Cultivating
Localization through Commodity De-Fetishism: Contours of Authenticity and
the Pursuit of Transparency in the Local Organic Agrarian Food Market
Chapter 8: Embodied Connections: A New Wave of Urban Agriculture Chapter 9:
The Dilemma of Dinner: The Practice of Home Cooking in Everyday Life Part
3: Food Consumption Practices and The Body Chapter 10: The Phenomenology of
Food Consumption: A Developmental View Chapter 11: Healthy Eating on a
Budget: Negotiating Tensions Between Two Discourses Chapter 12: Fat Eats: A
Phenomenology of Decadence, Food, and Health Index About the Contributors