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Author:   Nuno Domingos (University of Lisbon, Portugal) ,  José Manuel Sobral ,  Harry G. West
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.411kg
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9780857855381

ISBN 10:   0857855387
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   27 March 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction: Approaching Food and Foodways Between the Country and the City Through the Work of Raymond Williams Nuno Domingos and José Manuel Sobral, both Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and Harry G. West, SOAS, University of London, UK Section I: Of the Country and Its Food Conflicting Wine Narratives: ‘Pleasing Prospects’ and the Struggles in the Construction of Alentejo Nuno Domingos, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Embodying Country-City Relations: the Chola Cuencana in Highland Ecuador Emma-Jayne Abbots, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK Bringing the City to the Country: Supermarket Expansion, Food Practices and Aesthetics in Rural South Africa Elizabeth Hull, SOAS, University of London, UK Bringing It All Back Home: Reconnecting the Country and the City through Heritage Food Tourism in the French Auvergne Harry G. West, SOAS, University of London, UK Section II: Of the City and Its Food Coming to Terms with Urban Agriculture: a Self-Critique Laura B. Delind, Michigan State University, USA Urban Hunger and the Home Village: How Lilongwe's Migrant Poor Stay Food Secure Johan Pottier, SOAS, University of London, UK Perceptions of the Country through the Migration of City-grown Crops: Guinean Food in Bissau and in Lisbon Maria Abranches, University of Sussex, UK Section III: Of the Nation and Its Food The Country, the Nation and the Region in Representations of Portuguese Food and Cuisine José Manuel Sobral, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Hazz al-Quhuf: An Urban Satire on Peasant Life and Food from Seventeenth-century Egypt Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck and SOAS, University of London, UK Reflecting Authenticity: 'Grandmother's Yogurt' between Bulgaria and Japan Maria Yotova, University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan Unpacking the Mediterranean Diet: Agriculture, Food, and Health Monica Truninger and Dulce Freire, both Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Notes References Index

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"One of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite books ... The editors of this current volume extend Williams' insights into tropes of the country and the city to the problem of food in the contemporary era ... [and] treat us to several fascinating examples of the tenacity of these tropes in the messy and dynamic material realities of contemporary food production, circulation, and consumption. * AllegraLaboratory.net * This book deals with an historical dichotomy (rural versus urban) that colors almost every discussion of food and diet: Is the city the only true site of gourmet indulgence? Does the romanticization of country food hide the decline of rural life? Is food tourism a form of social exploitation? This collection explores such issues in the context of supermarkets, heritage movements, urban food movements, and the globalization of the Mediterranean diet. This is the ""new"" ethnography at its best. * James L. Watson, Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus Harvard University, USA * With its focus on examining the relationships between and problematizing the tropes of ‘city’ and ‘rural’ through the lens of food, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the emerging discipline of critical food studies. It consolidates emerging strands of research in interesting and useful ways by bringing together at once seemingly disparate themes and interrogating them through lenses of city and country. The collection is empirically rich and diverse and speaks to a range of interests, topics and perspectives. The ways that issues of city and country are tacitly explicated within the work of individual contributors is fantastic, and the ways in which they are woven together transforms them into a superb collection. * Benjamin Coles, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester, UK * For too long tropes of the city vs. countryside and the values associated with these categories have been taken for granted in food studies. This volume is important in unpacking those categories, examining how they are made, remade and contested in relationship to one another, and the ideological systems that inform how those categories are made in the first place. This is a very timely and necessary intervention in food studies literature. * Melissa L. Caldwell, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA * Drawing on a series of telling examples, the authors highlight the value of a comparative, ethnographic perspective in exploring the complex interconnections between urban and rural foodways, past and present. The result is a fitting tribute to Raymond Williams’ pioneering work, extending the geographical scope of his argument and using its intellectual power to challenge conventional stereotypes about the country and the city. * Peter Jackson, Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield, UK * The volume is especially appropriate for those working in rural and urban studies and can easily be assigned for undergraduate and graduate level coursework […] Individual chapters will be of interest to those with related regional and topic focuses, though the material is heavily weighted towards Portugal. And for those interested in Williams’s work, the intrigue of this volume remains, in large part, due to the strength of his original insight. What the editors give readers, where perhaps many food anthologies fall short, is a comprehensive theoretical perspective from which to analyze the plethora of ways humans produce, consume, represent, and interpret contemporary foodways. -- Amanda Green * Graduate Journal for Food Studies *"

This book deals with an historical dichotomy (rural versus urban) that colors almost every discussion of food and diet: Is the city the only true site of gourmet indulgence? Does the romanticization of country food hide the decline of rural life? Is food tourism a form of social exploitation? This collection explores such issues in the context of supermarkets, heritage movements, urban food movements, and the globalization of the Mediterranean diet. This is the new ethnography at its best. James L. Watson, Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus Harvard University, USA With its focus on examining the relationships between and problematizing the tropes of 'city' and 'rural' through the lens of food, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the emerging discipline of critical food studies. It consolidates emerging strands of research in interesting and useful ways by bringing together at once seemingly disparate themes and interrogating them through lenses of city and country. The collection is empirically rich and diverse and speaks to a range of interests, topics and perspectives. The ways that issues of city and country are tacitly explicated within the work of individual contributors is fantastic, and the ways in which they are woven together transforms them into a superb collection. Benjamin Coles, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester, UK For too long tropes of the city vs. countryside and the values associated with these categories have been taken for granted in food studies. This volume is important in unpacking those categories, examining how they are made, remade and contested in relationship to one another, and the ideological systems that inform how those categories are made in the first place. This is a very timely and necessary intervention in food studies literature. Melissa L. Caldwell, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Drawing on a series of telling examples, the authors highlight the value of a comparative, ethnographic perspective in exploring the complex interconnections between urban and rural foodways, past and present. The result is a fitting tribute to Raymond Williams' pioneering work, extending the geographical scope of his argument and using its intellectual power to challenge conventional stereotypes about the country and the city. Peter Jackson, Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield, UK

One of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite books ... The editors of this current volume extend Williams' insights into tropes of the country and the city to the problem of food in the contemporary era ... [and] treat us to several fascinating examples of the tenacity of these tropes in the messy and dynamic material realities of contemporary food production, circulation, and consumption. * AllegraLaboratory.net * This book deals with an historical dichotomy (rural versus urban) that colors almost every discussion of food and diet: Is the city the only true site of gourmet indulgence? Does the romanticization of country food hide the decline of rural life? Is food tourism a form of social exploitation? This collection explores such issues in the context of supermarkets, heritage movements, urban food movements, and the globalization of the Mediterranean diet. This is the new ethnography at its best. * James L. Watson, Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus Harvard University, USA * With its focus on examining the relationships between and problematizing the tropes of `city' and `rural' through the lens of food, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the emerging discipline of critical food studies. It consolidates emerging strands of research in interesting and useful ways by bringing together at once seemingly disparate themes and interrogating them through lenses of city and country. The collection is empirically rich and diverse and speaks to a range of interests, topics and perspectives. The ways that issues of city and country are tacitly explicated within the work of individual contributors is fantastic, and the ways in which they are woven together transforms them into a superb collection. * Benjamin Coles, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester, UK * For too long tropes of the city vs. countryside and the values associated with these categories have been taken for granted in food studies. This volume is important in unpacking those categories, examining how they are made, remade and contested in relationship to one another, and the ideological systems that inform how those categories are made in the first place. This is a very timely and necessary intervention in food studies literature. * Melissa L. Caldwell, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA * Drawing on a series of telling examples, the authors highlight the value of a comparative, ethnographic perspective in exploring the complex interconnections between urban and rural foodways, past and present. The result is a fitting tribute to Raymond Williams' pioneering work, extending the geographical scope of his argument and using its intellectual power to challenge conventional stereotypes about the country and the city. * Peter Jackson, Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield, UK * The volume is especially appropriate for those working in rural and urban studies and can easily be assigned for undergraduate and graduate level coursework [...] Individual chapters will be of interest to those with related regional and topic focuses, though the material is heavily weighted towards Portugal. And for those interested in Williams's work, the intrigue of this volume remains, in large part, due to the strength of his original insight. What the editors give readers, where perhaps many food anthologies fall short, is a comprehensive theoretical perspective from which to analyze the plethora of ways humans produce, consume, represent, and interpret contemporary foodways. -- Amanda Green * Graduate Journal for Food Studies *

With its focus on examining the relationships between and problematizing the tropes of 'city' and 'rural' through the lens of food, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the emerging discipline of critical food studies. It consolidates emerging strands of research in interesting and useful ways by bringing together at once seemingly disparate themes and interrogating them through lenses of city and country. The collection is empirically rich and diverse and speaks to a range of interests, topics and perspectives. The ways that issues of city and country are tacitly explicated within the work of individual contributors is fantastic, and the ways in which they are woven together transforms them into a superb collection. Benjamin Coles, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester, UK This book deals with an historical dichotomy (rural versus urban) that colors almost every discussion of food and diet: Is the city the only true site of gourmet indulgence? Does the romanticization of country food hide the decline of rural life? Is food tourism a form of social exploitation? This collection explores such issues in the context of supermarkets, heritage movements, urban food movements, and the globalization of the Mediterranean diet. This is the new ethnography at its best. James L. Watson, Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus Harvard University, USA For too long tropes of the city vs. countryside and the values associated with these categories have been taken for granted in food studies. This volume is important in unpacking those categories, examining how they are made, remade and contested in relationship to one another, and the ideological systems that inform how those categories are made in the first place. This is a very timely and necessary intervention in food studies literature. Melissa L. Caldwell, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Drawing on a series of telling examples, the authors highlight the value of a comparative, ethnographic perspective in exploring the complex interconnections between urban and rural foodways, past and present. The result is a fitting tribute to Raymond Williams' pioneering work, extending the geographical scope of his argument and using its intellectual power to challenge conventional stereotypes about the country and the city. Peter Jackson, Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield, UK

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Nuno Domingos is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and a Research Associate of the Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London, UK. José Manuel Sobral is Senior Researcher and Director of the PhD Program in Social Anthropology at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Harry G. West is Professor of Anthropology, and Chair of the Food Studies Centre, at SOAS, University of London, UK.

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