Feasts, Fasts, Famine: Food for Thought (Berg Occasional Papers in Anthropology)

by PatCaplan (Author)

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  1994

  $41.49

  Deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and moral issues. Through an examination of a wide range of material drawn from anthropology, history, literature and political economy, the author discusses the relationship between food and entitlement, gender, notions of the body and development.