ผู้เขียน: Helen Macbeth

“This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society…. Highly Recommended.”—Choice A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011 Winner of the …

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 t …

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 …

The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competiti …

The term ‘Anthropology of Food’ has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology th …

Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ec …

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In modern multicultural societies, the topic of ‘health and ethnicity’ has become increasingly recognised as highly relevant. All too frequently, academic coverage of the topic has been scattered in …

In presenting a variety of theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives on pure food, this volume demonstrates similarities and variations in cultural beliefs, behaviours and practices in different so …

In modern multicultural societies, the topic of ‘health and ethnicity’ has become increasingly recognised as highly relevant. All too frequently, academic coverage of the topic has been scattered in …