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Culinary Art and Anthropology

By Joy Adapon

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Culinary Art and Anthropology

By Joy Adapon

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Culinary Art and Anthropology is an anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavour using an original interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the 'art nexus'. Grounded in ethnography, it explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill and artistic practice. The integral role and concept of 'flavour' in everyday life is examined among cottage industry barbacoa makers in Milpa Alta, an outer district of Mexico City. Women's work and local festive occasions are examined against a background of material on professional chefs who reproduce 'traditional' Mexican cooking in restaurant settings. Including recipes to allow readers to practise the art of Mexican cooking, Culinary Art and Anthropology offers a sensual, theoretically sophisticated model for understanding food anthropologically. It will appeal to social scientists, food lovers, and those interested in the growing fields of food studies and the anthropology of the senses.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
174
Release Date:
2008-09-30
Publication Date:
2008-08-01
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1847882137
ISBN13:
9781847882134
Weight:
432 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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