[PDF] Consuming The Inedible eBook

Author : Jeremy M. MacClancy
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 184545684X

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Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological and health-related perspectives, examine in a rigorously comparative manner the consumption of foods conventionally regarded as inedible by most Westerners. This book is both timely and significant because nutritionists and health care professionals are seldom aware of anthropological information on these food practices, and vice versa. Ranging across diversity of disciplines Consuming the Inedible surveys scientific and local views about the consequences - biological, mineral, social or spiritual - of these food practices, and probes to what extent we can generalize about them.

Author : Pasi Falk
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 1994-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803989740

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This book provides a fascinating examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body and the formation of the self. In tracing these connections, The Consuming Body develops a profile of individuality in the late twentieth century - in both its bodily and mental aspects. Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. The author explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body's historically changing position in various cultural orders. In the course of his argument he examines both metaphors of consumption and investigates the issues of representation i

Author : Helen Macbeth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782381880

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Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes socialand biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic.

Author : Mark McWilliams
Publisher : Prospect Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1909248444

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Includes papers presented at the 2014 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery