The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and PowerThe Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating the relationship between food, the body, and cultural notions of gender. |
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Sommario
Food as Tie and Rupture | 4 |
Bread as World | 25 |
Food Power and Female | 43 |
Food Sex and Reproduction | 61 |
What Does It Mean to | 76 |
An Anthropological View | 93 |
Food Rules in the United States | 113 |
Fantasy Food | 129 |
The Body as Voice of Desire | 178 |
Body and Power in Womens Experiences | 195 |
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The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power Carole M. Counihan Anteprima limitata - 2018 |
The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power Carole M. Counihan Anteprima limitata - 2018 |
The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power Carole Counihan Anteprima non disponibile - 1999 |
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