Amy Bentley: Food for Thought | Buch

Cover: 9783030811143 | Food for Thought | Nourishment, Culture, Meaning | Amy Bentley (u. a.)

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Beschreibung

This volume offers new insights into food and culture. Food habits, preferences, and taboos are partially regulated by ecological and material factors - in other words, all food systems are structured and given particular functioning mechanisms by specific societies and cultures, either according to totemic, sacrificial, hygienic-rationalist, aesthetic, or other symbolic logics. This provides much ¿food for thought¿. The famous expression has never been so appropriate: not only do cultures develop unique practices for the production, treatment and consumption of food, but such practices inevitably end up affecting food-related aspects and spheres that are generally perceived as objectively and materially defined.

This book explores such dynamics drawing on various theoretical approaches and analytical methodologies, thus enhancing the cultural reflection on food and, at the same time, helping us see how the study of food itself can help us understand better what we call ¿culture¿. It will be of interest to anthropologists, philosophers, semioticians and historians of food.

Über den Autor

¿Simona Stano is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the University of Turin (UNITO, Italy) and Visiting Researcher at New York University (NYU, US). She has been awarded a Marie Curie Global Fellowship for a research project ("COMFECTION", 2019-2021) on the semiotic analysis of food communication. She also worked as Senior Researcher at the International Semiotics Institute (2015-2018) and as Visiting Researcher at the University of Toronto (2013), the University of Barcelona (2015-2016) and the "Observatorio de la Alimentación" (2015-2016). Dr. Stano deals mainly with semiotics of culture, food semiotics, body semiotics, and communication studies, and has published several papers, edited volumes (including special issues of top semiotic journals such as Semiotica and Lexia), and monographs (I sensi del cibo, Aracne, 2018; Eating the Other. Translations of the Culinary Code, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) on these topics. Since 2020, she is the vice-Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication (CIRCe) of the University of Turin.

Amy Bentley is Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. A historian with interests in the social, historical, and cultural contexts of food, she is the author of Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet (University of California Press, 2014), which was a finalist for a James Beard Award, and also winner of the ASFS Best Book Award. Other publications include Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity (University of Illinois, 1998), A Cultural History of Food in the Modern Era (editor) (Berg, 2011), as well as articles on such diverse topics as ketchup in Reagan's America, the politics of southwestern cuisine, and a historiography of food riots. In addition to her work as a food historian, she's been involved in a wide range of food-related academic and applied projects, including as co-founder of the NYU Urban Farm Lab and the Experimental Cuisine Collective (2007-2016). The former Editor-in-Chief of Food, Culture, and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (2013-2019), Bentley is co-editor of the book series Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations (Bloomsbury).

Zusammenfassung

Introduces a New Conceptual Framework on Food and Culture

Provides a Unique Interdisciplinary Analysis of Contemporary Food Trends

Effectively Combines Theoretical Insights and Applied Analysis, Fostering a Highly Interdisciplinary Approach

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Food for thought: An introduction (Simona Stano).- Part 1: Food, taste, and global cultures.- Chapter 2. Alimentation: A general semiotic model of socialising food (Ugo Volli).- Chapter 3. On the face of food (Massimo Leone).- Chapter 4. Phenomenology of a symbolic dish: What Su Porceddu teaches us about food, meaning, and identification (Franciscu Sedda).- Chapter 5. Food heritage, memory and cultural identity in Saudi Arabia: The case of Jeddah (Cristina Greco).- Chapter 6. Bittersweet home: The sweets craft in the urban life of Tripoli, Lebanon (Henry Peck).- Part 2: Law, power, and media.- Chapter 7. "An act authorizing sterilization of persons convicted of murder, rape, chicken stealing...": Southern chicken theft laws as an expression of racialised political violence (Daniel Thoennessen).- Chapter 8. Free breakfast and Taco trucks: Case studies of food as rhetorical homology in political discourse (Suzanne Cope).- Chapter 9. "Superfine quality, absolute purity, daily freshness": The language of advertising in united cattle products' marketing of tripe to British workers in the 1920s and 1930s (David Bell).- Chapter 10. New generations and axiologies of food in cinema and new media (Bruno Surace).- Part 3: Nutrition and culture. Chapter 11. Beyond nutrition: Meanings, narratives, myths (Simona Stano).- Chapter 12. Laughing alone with salad: Nutrition-based inequity in women's diet and wellness media (Emily Contois).- Chapter 13. Virtue and disease: Narrative accounts of orthorexia nervosa (Lauren Wynne).

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
Inhalt:	xiv 185 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 15 farbige Illustr. 185 p. 16 illus. 15 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783030811143
ISBN-10:	303081114X
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Redaktion:	Bentley, Amy Stano, Simona
Herausgeber:	Simona Stano/Amy Bentley
Auflage:	1st ed. 2022
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
Maße:	241 x 160 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Amy Bentley (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.09.2021
Gewicht:	0,507 kg

Artikel-ID: 120208261