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Author:   Jürgen Martschukat (Erfurt University, Germany) ,  Bryant Simon (Temple University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.512kg
ISBN:  

9781474298766

ISBN 10:   1474298761
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   06 April 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Food, Power and Agency Jürgen Martschukat, University of Erfurt, Germany, and Bryant Simon, Temple University, USA Section One: National Characters 1. The Power of Food: Immigrant German Restaurants in San Francisco and the Formation of Ethnic Identities Leonard Schmieding, Georgetown University, USA 2. Italian Cuisine in Japan and the Power of Networking among Cooks Rossella Ceccarini, Independent Anthropologist, Italy, and Keiichi Sawaguchi, Taisho University, Japan Section Two: Anthropological Situations 3. Waiters, Writers, and Power: From Dining Room Commanders to the Emotional Proletariat Christoph Ribbat, Paderborn University, Germany 4. The Geography of Silence: Food and Tragedy in Globalizing America Bryant Simon, Temple University, USA Section Three: Health 5. Making Food Matter: 'Scientific Eating' and the Struggle for Healthy Selves Nina Mackert, Erfurt University, Germany 6. 'What Diet Can Do': Running and Eating Right in 1970s America Jürgen Martschukat, Erfurt University, Germany 7. Being too Big — As 'Objectivation of Deviance' from the Societal Order Eva Barlösius, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany 8. When the Grease Runs Through the Paper: On the Consumption of Ultragreasy Bureks Jernej Mlekuž, Slovenian Migration Institute, Slovenia Notes on Contributors Index

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How power and agency operate in and through food is the essence of this book, which questions `good' and `bad' regarding such varied issues as taste, eating habits, health, and cooks' work. The book exposes the omnipresence of power relations in mundane and special occasions, and makes indispensable reading for interpreting past and present foodways * Peter Scholliers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium * With startling clarity and impressive breadth, this concise but powerful collection of essays from around the world provides new insights into the subtle way that power and agency operate through the mundane realm of eating, food systems, and norms of dietary health. This is essential reading for anyone interested in food OR power - but its great contribution is to show how those interests must, inevitably, intersect. * Charlotte Biltekoff, UC Davis, USA * From the subjugation of workers in a chicken processing plant to the unstable potency of cuisine and identity, Food, Power, and Agency reminds us that food is far from a mundane subject. Framed by an illuminating introduction, the collection demonstrates in fresh detail that food is the ideal medium though which to understand the complexity of agency, the vicissitudes of power, and the significance of symbols. * Amy Bentley, New York University, USA *

For those interested in exploring the connections between food and power relations, Food, Power and Agency offers an invigorating and rich account. * LSE Review of Books * How power and agency operate in and through food is the essence of this book, which questions `good' and `bad' regarding such varied issues as taste, eating habits, health, and cooks' work. The book exposes the omnipresence of power relations in mundane and special occasions, and makes indispensable reading for interpreting past and present foodways * Peter Scholliers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium * With startling clarity and impressive breadth, this concise but powerful collection of essays from around the world provides new insights into the subtle way that power and agency operate through the mundane realm of eating, food systems, and norms of dietary health. This is essential reading for anyone interested in food OR power - but its great contribution is to show how those interests must, inevitably, intersect. * Charlotte Biltekoff, UC Davis, USA * From the subjugation of workers in a chicken processing plant to the unstable potency of cuisine and identity, Food, Power, and Agency reminds us that food is far from a mundane subject. Framed by an illuminating introduction, the collection demonstrates in fresh detail that food is the ideal medium though which to understand the complexity of agency, the vicissitudes of power, and the significance of symbols. * Amy Bentley, New York University, USA *

How power and agency operate in and through food is the essence of this book, which questions 'good' and 'bad' regarding such varied issues as taste, eating habits, health, and cooks' work. The book exposes the omnipresence of power relations in mundane and special occasions, and makes indispensable reading for interpreting past and present foodways Peter Scholliers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium With startling clarity and impressive breadth, this concise but powerful collection of essays from around the world provides new insights into the subtle way that power and agency operate through the mundane realm of eating, food systems, and norms of dietary health. This is essential reading for anyone interested in food OR power - but its great contribution is to show how those interests must, inevitably, intersect. Charlotte Bitlekoff, UC Davis, USA From the subjugation of workers in a chicken processing plant to the unstable potency of cuisine and identity, Food, Power, and Agency reminds us that food is far from a mundane subject. Framed by an illuminating introduction, the collection demonstrates in fresh detail that food is the ideal medium though which to understand the complexity of agency, the vicissitudes of power, and the significance of symbols. Amy Bentley, New York University, USA

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Jürgen Martschukat is Professor of History at Erfurt University, Germany Bryant Simon is Professor of History at Temple University, USA

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