Food and Culture: Food and Cultural Meaning

Contents 1. The problem of changing food habits / Margaret Mead -- 2. Toward a psychosociology of contemporary food consumption / Roland Barthes -- 3. The culinary triangle / Claude Le´vi-Strauss -- 4. Deciphering a meal / Mary Douglas -- 5. The abominable pig / Marvin Harris -- 6. Nourishing arts / Michel De Certeau, Luce Giard -- 7. The recipe, the prescription, and the experiment / Jack Goody -- 8. Time, sugar, and sweetness / Sidney W. Mintz -- 9. Anorexia nervosa and its differential diagnosis / Hilde Bruch

Contents 1. Food, culture, and gender -- 2. Bread as world : food habits and social relations in modernizing Sardinia -- 3. Food, power, and female : identity in contemporary Florence -- 4. Food, sex, and reproduction : penetration of gender boundaries -- 5. What does it mean to be fat, thin, and female? A review essay -- 6. An anthropological view of western women's prodigious fasting : a review essay -- 7. Food rules in the United States : individualism, control, and hierarchy -- 8. Fantasy food : gender and food symbolism in preschool children's made-up stories -- 9. Food as tie and rupture : negotiating intimacy and autonomy in the Florentine family -- 10. The body as voice of desire and connection in Florence, Italy -- 11. Body and power in women's experiences of reproduction in the United States

Contents Hunger as ideology / Susan Bordo -- 'Get fat, don't die!': eating and AIDS in gay men's culture / Steven F. Kruger -- Eating animals / Carol J. Adams -- Eating out: voluptuosity for dessert / David Farrell Krell -- Only food / Marianna Beck -- The careers of chefs / Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson and Sharon Zukin -- A place at the counter: the onus of oneness / Mary Lukanuski -- Appetite / Alphonso Lingis -- Untitled artists' projects by Janine Antoni, Ben Kinmont, Rirkrit Tiravanija / Laura Trippi -- Edible architecture, cannibal architecture / Allen S. Weiss -- Food, health, and Native-American farming and gathering / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Eating the other: desire and resistance / bell hooks -- Dining out: the hyperreality of appetite / Joanne Finkelstein -- Feeding the audience: food, feminism, and performance art / Deborah R. Geis -- A supper party / Diana Fuss -- A postcard history of the U.S. restaurant / Jeff Weinstein -- Soul food: where the chitterling hits the (primal) pan / Doris Witt -- 'Fable number one': some myths about consumption / Ed Schiffer -- Bubbie's challah / Stephen Steinberg