The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating A Reader,9780631230939

The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating A Reader

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780631230939
ISBN10: 0631230939
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-12-27
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world. Uses food as a central idiom for teaching about culture and addresses broad themes such as globalization, capitalism, market economies, and consumption practices Spanning 5 continents, features studies from 11 countries-Japan, China, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Burkina Faso, Chile, Trinidad, Mexico, and the United States Offers discussion of such hot topics as sushi, fast food, gourmet foods, and food scares and contamination

Author Biography

James L. Watson is Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. His books include Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia(edited 1998), Village Life in Hong Kong (with Rubie Watson, 2004), and Between Two Cultures (edited, Blackwell, 1977).


Melissa L. Caldwell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia (2004).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii
Editors' Acknowledgments ix
Acknowledgments to Sources x
Introduction 1(10)
James L. Watson and Melissa L. Caldwell
Part I Food and Globalization 11(93)
Introduction
11(93)
1 How Sushi Went Global
13(8)
Theodore C. Bestor
2 French Beans for the Masses: A Modern Historical Geography of Food in Burkina Faso
21(21)
Susanne Freidberg
3 Fresh Demand: The Consumption of Chilean Produce in the United States
42(12)
Walter L. Goldfrank
4 Coca-Cola: A Black Sweet Drink from Trinidad
54(16)
Daniel Miller
5 China's Big Mac Attack
70(10)
James L. Watson
6 Of Hamburger and Social Space: Consuming McDonald's in Beijing
80(24)
Yunxiang Yan
Part II Gentrification, Yuppification, and Domesticating Tastes 104(111)
Introduction
104(59)
7 Children's Food and Islamic Dietary Restrictions in Xi'an
106(16)
Maris Boyd Gillette
8 The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States
122(22)
William Roseberry
9 Crafting Grand Cru Chocolates in Contemporary France
144(19)
Susan J. Terrio
10 Globalized Childhood? Kentucky Fried Chicken in Beijing
163(17)
Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr.
11 Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald's and Consumerism in Moscow
180(17)
Melissa L. Caldwell
12 "India Shopping": Indian Grocery Stores and Transnational Configurations of Belonging
197(18)
Purnima Mankekar
Part III The Political Economy of Food 215(92)
Introduction
215(2)
13 Food and the Counterculture: A Story of Bread and Politics
217(18)
Warren Belasco
14 Industrial Tortillas and Folkloric Pepsi: The Nutritional Consequences of Hybrid Cuisines in Mexico
235(16)
Jeffrey M. Pilcher
15 Food, Hunger, and the State
251(8)
Susan Brownell
16 The Bakers of Bernburg and the Logics of Communism and Capitalism
259(17)
Hans Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler
17 The Global Food Fight
276(10)
Robert Paarlberg
18 Half-lives and Healthy Bodies: Discourses on "Contaminated" Food and Healing in Post-Chernobyl Ukraine
286(13)
Sarah Drue Phillips
19 Mad Cow Mysteries
299(8)
Harriet Ritvo
Index 307

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