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Reconstructing Obesity - The Meaning Of Measures And The Measure Of Meanings

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 This volume draws on ethnographic methods and analytical emic explorations in order to consider the impact of cultural difference, embodiment, and local knowledge on understanding obesity. It is through this reconstruction of how obesity and fatness are studied and understood that a new discussion will be introduced...
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Re-Orienting Cuisine - East Asian Foodways In The Twenty-First Century

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Foods are changed not only by those who produce & supply them, but also by those who consume them. Analyzing food without considering changes over time & across space is less meaningful than analyzing it in a global context where tastes, lifestyles, and imaginations cross boundaries and blend with each other, challenging the idea of authenticity.
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The Dance Of Nurture - Negotiating Infant Feeding

by Penny Van Esterik e Richard A. O’Connor

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 The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.
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Food Beyond Terroir - Tasting Place And Placing Taste In Global Perspective

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 Through diverse ethnographic case studies, leading food scholars examine the meaning and making of place and taste. In doing so, the book challenges unsettling terroir-inspired notions of a fixed taste of place and pushes the boundaries of what we think we know about their connections.
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Nourishing Life - Foodways And Humanity In An African Town

by Arianna Huhn

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 <p>In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations. Embedded within central themes in the study of Africa south of the Sahara, the volume combines insights from philosophy and food studies to find textured layers of meaning in a seemingly simple cuisine.</p>
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Food And Families In The Making - Knowledge Reproduction And Political Economy Of Cooking In Morocco

by Katharina Graf

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 Food and Families in the Making looks at knowledge reproduction about how we know cooking and its role in the making of everyday family life. It also examines a political economy of cooking that situates Marrakchi womenâ€™s lived experience in the broader context of persisting poverty and food insecurity in Morocco.
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Food And Families In The Making - Knowledge Reproduction And Political Economy Of Cooking In Morocco

by Katharina Graf

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 Food and Families in the Making looks at knowledge reproduction about how we know cooking and its role in the making of everyday family life. It also examines a political economy of cooking that situates Marrakchi womenâ€™s lived experience in the broader context of persisting poverty and food insecurity in Morocco.
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The Dance Of Nurture - Negotiating Infant Feeding

by Penny Van Esterik e Richard A. Oâ€™Connor

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 Holistic approach to infant feeding Combines biological and cultural approaches to infant feeding in a single frame Integrates issues from the global north and south Provides ethnographic insight into advocacy work on infant feeding
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Nourishing Life - Foodways And Humanity In An African Town

by Arianna Huhn

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 <p>In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations. Embedded within central themes in the study of Africa south of the Sahara, the volume combines insights from philosophy and food studies to find textured layers of meaning in a seemingly simple cuisine.</p>
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Greek Whisky - The Localization Of A Global Commodity

by Tryfon Bampilis

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 An explanation of the social life of Scotch in Greece via the Greek culture industry, Athenian nightlife and North Aegean drinking habits An analysis of how Scotch has been championed as a "local" symbol in 2 widely different regions of Greece An illustration of how Scotch has become associated with modernity, popular music and culture
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Reconstructing Obesity - The Meaning Of Measures And The Mesure Of Meanings

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 This volume draws on ethnographic methods and analytical emic explorations in order to consider the impact of cultural difference, embodiment, and local knowledge on understanding obesity. It is through this reconstruction of how obesity and fatness are studied and understood that a new discussion will be introduced...
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Greek Whisky - The Localization Of A Global Commodity

by Tryfon Bampilis

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 An explanation of the social life of Scotch in Greece via the Greek culture industry, Athenian nightlife and North Aegean drinking habits An analysis of how Scotch has been championed as a "local" symbol in 2 widely different regions of Greece An illustration of how Scotch has become associated with modernity, popular music and culture
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Nourishing Life - Foodways And Humanity In An African Town

by Arianna Huhn

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Nourishing Life - Foodways And Humanity In An African Town

by Arianna Huhn

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 In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life.
ENGLISH

The Dance Of Nurture - Negotiating Infant Feeding

by Penny Van Esterik e Richard A. O’Connor

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.
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The Invoice

by Jonas Karlsson

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 Iâ€™m in my thirties, I work part-time in a video store in Stockholm, most of my friends are busy with their families, I live alone. I suppose youâ€™d say I have an ordinary lifeâ€¦ But I love this city, and even though my flat is small it suits me, Iâ€™m comfortable here.
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Reconstructing Obesity - The Meaning Of Measures And The Measure Of Meanings

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 In the crowded and busy arena of obesity and fat studies, there is a lack of attention to the lived experiences of people, how and why they eat what they do, and how people in cross-cultural settings understand risk, health, and bodies. This volume addresses the lacuna by drawing on ethnographic methods and analytical emic explorations.
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Re-Orienting Cuisine - East Asian Foodways In The Twenty First Century

by Kwang-Ok Kim

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 Foods are changed not only by those who produce & supply them, but also by those who consume them. Analyzing food without considering changes over time & across space is less meaningful than analyzing it in a global context where tastes, lifestyles, and imaginations cross boundaries and blend with each other, challenging the idea of authenticity.
ENGLISH

Re-Orienting Cuisine - East Asian Foodways In The Twenty-First Century

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Foods are changed not only by those who produce & supply them, but also by those who consume them. Analyzing food without considering changes over time & across space is less meaningful than analyzing it in a global context where tastes, lifestyles, and imaginations cross boundaries and blend with each other, challenging the idea of authenticity.
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From Virtue To Vice - Negotiating Anorexia

by Penny Van Esterik e Richard A. O' Connor

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 The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold, piecing their stories together reveals two accidental afflictions. One is that activity disorders - dieting, exercising, healthy eating - start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions.
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Reconstructing Obesity - The Meaning Of Measures And The Measure Of Meanings

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 In the crowded and busy arena of obesity and fat studies, there is a lack of attention to the lived experiences of people, how and why they eat what they do, and how people in cross-cultural settings understand risk, health, and bodies. This volume addresses the lacuna by drawing on ethnographic methods and analytical emic explorations.

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